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    Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own
    Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own
    Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own
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    Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature & Rediscover My Own

    Written by Margaret Winslow

    Narrated by Coleen Marlo

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    Sports car, Italian villa, inappropriate love interest? Not for author Margaret Winslow, an overworked college professor in New York City. She met midlife agita not head-on, but ass-on, fulfilling a childhood curiosity about donkeys by answering a for-sale ad for a "Large White Saddle Donkey" in the American Donkey and Mule Society's magazine, The Brayer. Hilarity ensues, alongside life-threatening injuries and spirit-enriching insight.

    As listeners walk with Winslow and Caleb the donkey through training traumas, expert-baffling antics, and humiliating races, they also share in the author's gradual understanding of Caleb's true, undeniable gifts: a willingness to "speak truth to power," to trust, and to forgive. Winslow incorporates these lessons into her life, and as Caleb and Winslow learn to thrive, listeners not only cheer them on but also learn a thing or three about being true to their own pure and powerful self.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 15, 2018
    ISBN9781541447165
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    Margaret Winslow

    Margaret Winslow is a field geologist with over thirty years experience in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, where a fascination with donkeys in rural areas evolved into a quest to fulfill a long-forgotten childhood dream of owning one. She holds a PhD in geological sciences from Columbia University and have published over thirty papers in international scientific journals. Her National Geographic–funded fieldwork on earthquake hazards and archaeological settlement patterns in Alaska and Chile is featured in the award-winning PBS series “Fire on the Rim.” Winslow has been interviewed on NPR’s “West Coast Live,” CBS News Radio, and WABC Eyewitness News. She has written two travel memoirs, Over My Head: Journeys in Leaky Boats from the Strait of Magellan to Cape Horn and Beyond(2012),andThe Cusp of Dreadfulness(2016).Winslow is professor emerita of earth sciences at the City College of New York and live in the lower Hudson valley of New York with her oceanographer husband, Joe Stennett. Her donkey, Caleb, boards nearby with fifty horses and ponies, where he continues to steal the show every day.

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    • 3/5
      Readable and fairly light, Margaret Winslow and trainers work to train the donkey Caleb to be something he isn't for years before having to face that it wasn't working. The authors own work issues and insecurities play a part in the failures. The scandal of NYCC administrators selling campus space required by student to private buyers that is a subtext that seems overwhelmed by today's $$ for admission headlines.