Down the Long Lane
Deborah Ann LucasI am a writer, artist, book coach, and author of DANCE WHILE THE FIRE BURNS, a memoir. I tell stories about living with horses, overcoming adversity, and finding home. As a book coach, I help women find, shape, and write their own stories.
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Embracing the Unknown
Embracimg my shadow in the darkness 1988 by Deborah Ann Lucas
When I read today’s newsletter, “Making with Darkness: The Unknown,” from Jeannine Ouelette’s “A Hundred Day Creative Practice–Day Fifty-ight,” I think of a blank page on my com...
Sitting in the darkness
1989 Charcoal by Deborah Ann Lucas
Earlier today, reading Jeannette Ouellette’s “You Come from Darkness,” spurred me to write. I’ve been offline and out of touch since my last surgery in February. During that time, I’ve read very few newsl...
A Letter to my Writer-Self
How to Give a Horse Medicine, watercolor 2025 from Standing With Horses series
I’m sitting in my recliner, with my right leg packed in ice and JD, my 20-year-old rescue cat, curled up on my left leg, missing that part of me that make...
I was reminded this morning…
While I was a senior in high school, my brother Mike was a soldier in Vietnam...and he would pay the price 33 years later.
I was riding in a car with my friend Ruth Ann, who was driving us into the Chicago suburbs to a mini-retreat event h...
When a Great Idea Becomes a Bad One
My brother Chuck died in 1995, 6 years after his partner Don—both from AIDS.
I like to write after I wake up with an alarming thought screaming inside my head, pounding on my brow, and in my ear I hear my brother’s voice, “you’re in big tr...
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Author of DANCE WHILE the FIRE BURNS: Family, Identity, and Dreams, a memoir, I write books about my healing journey with horses. I’m also an artist and a book coach specializing in memoir and women’s fiction.
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