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

Author: Margaret Winslow

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/15/2018


Synopsis

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.

About Margaret Winslow

Margaret Winslow is a field geologist with more than thirty years' experience in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. The author of more than thirty papers in international scientific journals, she has also written two published travel memoirs and is professor emerita of earth sciences at the City College of New York. She lives in Piermont, NY.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chitra

The number of stars I give this book is an average of two ratings. 5 stars for the admiration I feel for Ms. Winslow's love and dogged perseverance in the face of all physical and emotional punishment that her beloved donkey Caleb dishes out. For being a geologist of such wide-ranging acclaim who st......more

Goodreads review by Ken

You won't laugh your ass off reading this book about a woman in mid-life buying and attempting to train a donkey in upstate New York, but you will enjoy it. So many books are out there with the theme: animals change humans. Many don't really deliver. This one does. Much of the book deals with Margare......more

Goodreads review by Peachie

1.5 Stars So disappointed in this book. While I did learn a few facts about donkeys, how Caleb was treated is sad. Purchased without any true knowledge and shipped back and forth without any true training goal (wanting a 'trail buddy' yet forcing him to learn dressage?), I question why get an animal......more