I have enjoyed writing most of my life. I wrote bulletin articles for the church bulletin and have some 1,200 of them saved somewhere. I have a vivid imagination for it comes very easy. We had a mare named Molly when I was a kid. I rode her a million miles (not really). She was a great horse. I loved her a lot. When I began thinking about the Topsy story, the name was the first one I came up with. We also had a pony named Topsy; my older sister and I rode her for a long time. She originally belonged to Miss America Jo Carol Denison (1948), so came the name of Topsy for my fictional colt. The second character in the book is the little red fox, Swifty. She actually was real too. I looked out that morning and saw her sitting in my driveway. That part of the book is real. I began to write myself notes to use in the book. I had planned to have two books, but thought it would be fun to combine them, so here is the one book.
