Nonfiction Publications

Theodore Roosevelt

Riding with Theodore Roosevelt in Equus, April 2018.

• Republished by Equus online September 20, 2023.

Family History

The Lost Vowel in The Fourth River run by the Chatham University MFA program.  This is one of the pieces of which I am most proud.

https://www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-newnature/2021/5/26/the-lost-vowel

The Lost Vowel  (longer version) in Scrawl Winter, 2023.

Krie Eleison in  LogoSophia at Christmas, 2022. 

Catch and Release in Glint Literary Journal in Winter, 2023

Horses in History

Detecting Icelandic Horse Origins USIHC Quarterly.

• Cited twice in the Wikipedia Article on "The Icelandic Horse" which is identified as "one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community" and flagged as of high importance to the WikiProject Iceland and medium importance to the WikiProject Equine. 
• Cited in Wikipedia article on the "Mongolian Horse." 
• Published in USIHC Quarterly Linked to from Nortland Horse Web Site in Norway 
•  Cited in "A Scientific and Historical Investigation on Mongolian Horses" in a Russian publication http://historic-journal.ru/2017/scientific-and-historical-investigation-on-mongolian-horses/. 
• Cited in "The Roles of Humans in Horse Distribution" by Sandra Olsen, pp. 105-120, in the book Wild Equids: Ecology, Management, and Conservation edited by Jason I. Ransom, Petra Kaczensky, John Hopkins University Press, May 15, 2016 
• Cited in "Spotted phenotypes in horses lost attractiveness in Middle Ages" by Wutke, S., et al. in Scientific Reports 6:38548 · December 2016 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311500236_Spotted_phenotypes_in_horses_lost_attractiveness_in_the_Middle_Ages 
• Cited in "International Horse People 500 AD" by Katarina Lundgren, MiMer Centre, Equine Human Education and Research Centre, August 29, 2020 
• Cited by C. Arnett in "Hestaping (Horse Meetings) in Medieval Icelandic Culture," p. 190 in Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Aug 5, 2019. 
•  Cited by E. Konopka in "Of Horses and Men Symbolic Value of Horse in Icelandic Art," Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, June 2020. Saskia Wutke,
• "Tracing Changes in Space and Time: Paternal Diversity and Phenotypic Traits during Horse Domestication," November 2016, University of Eastern Finland Thesis. 
• Mentioned in Kristina Stelter, "The Horse of the Vikings," Academia, https://www.academia.edu/31039786/
• The_Horse_of_the_Vikings Konopka, Emiliana. "O koniach i ludziach. Symboliczne znaczenie konia w sztuce islandzkiej." Nr 6 (2020): Zoophilologica - T.6 (2020) 
• Cited in Huizinga and Callois, "Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages," 2019, Dokumen.Pub
  

Jules Verne and the Icelandic Horse USIHC Quarterly, p. 39

Icelandic Pony in William Morris' Kitchen Blessiblog 

 

Equine Heath

Case Study:  Blessi's Mysterious Nosebleed        Equus       September 2018.

Beating the Odds: The Astonishing Survival of Icelandic Horse Twins  The Northwest Horse Source,

• Also published in the North American Icelandic Horse Stud Book.

What is Bone Spavin?       USIHC Quarterly,

• Translated into French by Alexandra Russ and published as "Qu'est-ce Que L'Eparvin" in Les Crinieres Islandaises.  September 2014

Spots in the Eyes (MCOA)   USIHC Quarterly

• This article is cited Kristina Stelter's "The Horse of the Vikings"  in Icelandic Horse Quarterly 2016. https://www.academia.edu/31039786/The_Horse_of_the_Vikings

Laminitis                         USIHC Quarterly, p. 33

• My article on laminitis is also cited in the USIHC Riding Badge Program.
  
  

Horse Humor

Sitting Pretty,      Equus Magazine     September, 2017, p. 80.
Sitting Pretty,      Equus On-line,  December 1, 2017 

Jousting for Success      USIHC Quarterly, p. 37  

The Donut Effect  Behind the Bit (Online)  August 2018

Blessi Has a Bad Hair Day   USIHC Quarterly, p. 29 

Grass, Grass Everywhere Nor Any Bite to Eat    USIHC Quarterly

Icelandic Horses

Fun with World Fengur     USIHC Quarterly, p. 20    


There is no Tolt in Dressage   USIHC Quarterly, p. 32  

• Also published in Canada by the Canadian Icelandic Horse Organization

The Extremes of Extreme Farm    USIHC Quarterly, p. 29  

• Also published in Canada by the Canadian Icelandic Horse Organization

Introduction to Conformation      USIHC Quarterly, p. 18  

United States Icelandic Horse Congress Marketing Brochure

Horse Training

A Debate about Round Penning   (ed.)  USIHC Quarterly, p. 23 

Principles of Horse Learning          USIHC Quarterly, p. 38 

 

 Craft of Writing

 What Do We Learn About Writing from Murder Hornets  in  Black Fox Literary Magazine.

Character Creation Is Not a Crystal Growing Kit       Page and Spine Fiction Showcase

 Why Do We Write in Page and Spine Fiction
https://pagespineficshowcase.com/pamela-nolf.html

 

Twitter Comment - Retribution of the Deadwooders

 

There is a twitter posting about the newly published Undead, a collection of horror short stories from Planispher Q publishers.  My "Retribution of the Deadwooders"   is the only story receiving an individual comment. "Que graaaande" means "how greeaat" in French.

The book has lots of great horror stories.  You can get a copy at 

https://www.lulu.com/shop/planisphere-q/planisphere-q-undead/paperback/product-m84795.html?page=1&pageSize=4

"Retribution of the Deadwooders" Published

 

Planisphere Q has published "Retribution of the  Deadwooders" in the 2022 Fall edition with the theme of the "Undead."  You can obtain a copy from Lulu.com.

Retribution of the Deadwooders Accepted

Planisphere Quarterly has accepted my flash fiction "Retribution of the
Deadwooders" to be published in its Undead Issue  in October.  The story is a bit naughty.

Catch and Release to be Published

 

Bill Anderson photo from Flickr.  Posted as part
of Chesapeake Bay Program.  Limited license.

   My creative nonfiction story "Catch and Release about me and my Dad's fishing misadventures will be published by Glint Literary Journal in December. 

As Thoreau said, "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” 

 

Black Fox Literary Magazine published my flash nonfiction "Writing Advice from the Murder Hornet."  The editor did a great job finding the perfect terrifying photo of wasp.  You can check it out at:

 https://www.blackfoxlitmag.com/2022/06/15/writing-advice-from-the-murder-hornet-by-ps-nolf/

The Dust Devil

 The Dust Devil is included in in Bag of Bones - 206 Word Stories: A Horror Anthology.  You can order this book on Amazon.  All profits goes to a children's charity in Britain.

This was a difficult prose poem to place.    Most of the places rejected it with a personal comment that went like this: 

"Your piece made it to our second round of readings--we thought the voice and the style were unique and created a very vivid atmosphere, which is just the sort of "otherworldliness" accomplished through language that we're going for in our publication. Ultimately, however, we will be passing on the piece."

 This lone little dogie of doggerel starts off:

I’m blowin’ cross the plains and Hell’s acomin’ with me.

Ya can’t run from my ragin' red tower of brimstone.

I’ll whirl ya to the boneyard as the souls of the damned scream.

I kin spin those copper rivets right off the levis of Monkey Ward cowboys till their chaps fall off.

Toss any lost little doggies or dang dinosaruses off the plains. Sand the spots off the pintos.

Dare ya to grin. I’ll scour ya phiz off.

 Language is based on a cowboy diction of terms from the Western US in the late 1800s.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bag-Bones-Stories-Horror-Anthology-ebook/dp/B09TJNWP6C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8