Books with author Teresa Jordan

In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys.With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West.Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs.Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well.

On a writing assignment, award-winning author Teresa Jordan spent twelve days traveling down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. As has happened to so many who have visited the Grand Canyon, this intensely verbal woman found herself speechless; she was filled with awe the whole time. She had brought along a small box of watercolors and stole away from her group each day to paint an illustrated record of her experiences. The results are these field notes from a re-enchantment with the world. She believes the sketchbook was the river's gift to her; in turn she offers the sketchbook to help us find the river for ourselves. About the experience she later wrote, "I expected the canyon to astonish me. It exceeded my wildest imaginings by at least a power of ten . . . On the river I found myself drunk with visual excitement, engaged in a gluttony of looking . . . Often I would try to recall something I had seen on the river. Other times I would focus on something directly in front of me: a family of barrel cacti in the late afternoon sun, a single cube of zoroaster granite . . .trying to isolate, to understand, the purity of that particular gold of morning light on the ridge, or the muddy claret of the redwall limestone." The first in a series of Sketchbook Expeditions, Field Notes from the Grand Canyon is the perfect giftfor yourself, or anyone you care about. The paintings are lovely, capturing the canyon's unmistakable luminosity, and the book is produced on special paper with the look and feel of a watercolor sketchbook. This stunning little gem will be a cherished souvenir for anyone who's been down the Colorado River, and an enticement for anyone who has yet to make this life-altering journey.

Deep within the forest lives a colony of tiny elves whose sole purpose in life is to polish the rainbows to keep them fresh and bright. One sad little elf named Charlie lives alone and has no one to teach him what he needs to know. Faced with the uncertainty of what to do or from whom to ask for guidance, Charlie wanders through the forest in search of answers. If only his life were as easy as his friends’ lives seemed to be! They all have people in their lives to help them, and Charlie has no one, or so he thought. Unbeknownst to him, a tiny fairy named Tina watches over Charlie and follows him everywhere he goes. Just when Charlie feels there is no hope for him, Tina secretly urges him not to give up, to keep on trying. Even though his parents are gone, they are forever in his heart. His mother’s love crosses boundaries and whispers to his heart. Will Charlie listen to his heart and find the help he needs? He’ll never know how far he’ll go until he takes that first step.

Deep within the forest lives a colony of tiny elves whose sole purpose in life is to polish the rainbows to keep them fresh and bright. One sad little elf named Charlie lives alone and has no one to teach him what he needs to know. Faced with the uncertainty of what to do or from whom to ask for guidance, Charlie wanders through the forest in search of answers. If only his life were as easy as his friends' lives seemed to be! They all have people in their lives to help them, and Charlie has no one, or so he thought. Unbeknownst to him, a tiny fairy named Tina watches over Charlie and follows him everywhere he goes. Just when Charlie feels there is no hope for him, Tina secretly urges him not to give up, to keep on trying. Even though his parents are gone, they are forever in his heart. His mother's love crosses boundaries and whispers to his heart. Will Charlie listen to his heart and find the help he needs? He'll never know how far he'll go until he takes that first step.

Discover the secrets of learning from your horse and become a partner with your horse by building a strong relationship with him first. You will save valuable time by preventing frustrations that go along with training your horse. Catch your breath, warm your heart, and challenge every emotion within you...in Lessons in Learning According to the Horse. Terri dives deep into the psyche of a horse and translates the horse's needs to the reader. Through her wisdom that she shares in this book, readers can improve on their horsemanship. She covers many aspects from laying out the groundwork with a new horse to being able to train a horse you may have had for years. The Bonus section, A Guide to Buying the Right Horse should be read by anyone who is thinking of purchasing a horse. Anyone involved with horses, from a novice to an experienced rider, can benefit from reading this book.