Babette Williams spent 35 years in the horse world as a professional trainer, equitation instructor, owner, breeder and American Horse Shows Association approved judge. Her second career was as a Real Estate Broker in New Jersey and Florida.

Her publications include "Lucky," which appeared in The Gaited Horse and was selected as the winner of the Annual Merial Human-Animal Bond Award in 2002; and The Swamp, an outsider's Alumni Magazine in 2004.

She and her husband live at Oak Hammock, a retirement community at the University of Florida, where they enjoy their blended family, their dogs, and above all, each other.