My First Novel Was Also My Last

The memory of writing it still makes me smile!

Deborah Barchi
Crow’s Feet
Published in
4 min readMar 21

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Photo credit: Bob Brewer on Unsplash

When I was 10 years old, back in 1961, I was like so many girls, crazy about horses. Living in a city with no easy access to flesh-and-blood horses, I read every book about horses I could get from the local public library.

My very favorite writer about horses was Marguerite Henry. Among her most successful…

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Deborah Barchi
Crow’s Feet

Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.