My Amazing, Immortal Mother—First Quarter/Nineteen Years pg43

Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic

Mernie Buchanan
2 min readNov 9, 2020

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Dude Ranch — Portrait of my mother 2018

As a young woman Joan was Rosie the Riveter, a nurse and a cowgirl. During two weeks every summer she vacationed on a dude ranch in central British Columbia to help with cattle round-ups on fast horses. In a picture of her from that time she was smiling the best smile

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Mernie Buchanan

Originally from CA & Las Vegas, I now paint and write in Woodstock NY. All images are my original art & photos. Links to more at mernie.com