Interviewing author Sharon RobertsLollipop interviewing author Sharon Roberts' pony Cate.
Lolli: What type of books does your mom write? Cate: Pony and horse books for young people. She sometimes thinks she is knowledgeable about ponies. She has written one for tweens and one for teens. Lolli: Of all your mom’s books, which one is your favorite? Cate: Honey, A Pony’s Story. Lolli: Why? Cate: Because my friends and I actually wrote it. Mom loves us ponies and even The Dog, who is obnoxious at best. The cats are OK. But she really isn’t as tuned into what goes on in our minds as she likes to think. Often when she is out scratching and grooming us her thoughts are elsewhere. It took all of us working together to reach her. Even then we had to do it when she was sleeping. I think humans are the only species who are not evolved enough to use the morphogenetic fields at will. So we had to slip into hers while “her logic” was turned off. Lolli: What about Sharon’s other book Olympic Gold for Cat and Toby? Cate: While we were sharing Honey’s story with Mom she was thinking of her other book. She wrote it for teens. Toby is a fictional horse and so isn’t nearly as interesting as our story of Honey. I wouldn’t want to hurt Mom’s feeling, but she doesn’t write as good when we aren’t feeding her the story line by line. Lolli: What do you do for amusement while Sharon pounds at the computer all day and ignores you? Cate: I am fortunate to live with six other ponies. We have sixteen acres in rural Arkansas, so we have plenty to do. We have a lot of deer who come in a graze with us. They can so easily jump over the fences, so they get to eat the good grass I can’t reach.
Lolli: Does Sharon ask your advice when she’s stuck? Cate: Yes she does. Lolli: Does she even listen and undertand? Cate: I think she tries to listen, but sometimes her own thoughts are so busy bumping into each other that she can’t hear our thoughts. I wish she could hear us better, I know she would be happier and more at peace if she did.
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