Relaxed & Forward Blog

Part Three: Thanksgiving Every Day.

Christmas is bearing down, getting closer every day, and I continue to defiantly focus on Thanksgiving, a week away. I...
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My Barn is Haunted.

It starts innocently. Maybe when you were little, your dad watched John Wayne movies like mine did. We fell in...
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Canadian Goose Quadrille.

My corner of Colorado is having a particularly colorful Autumn. The sun rise is later and later, but the dawn...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Broken

Ask me about my week... Anna, Infinity Farm.
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Hamsters Will Never Replace Horses.

Has it been one of those weeks? Everything that could go wrong–did? We all know how it feels when gravity...
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Same Old Dressage, Brand New Eyes.

I have been preparing for a clinic this weekend at Infinity Farm. It's the my favorite clinic every year: Fundamentals...
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Equine Gastric Ulcers… and Sage.

I'll call her Sage. Sage was a thoroughbred mare with classic elegance. A solid bay with a long neck and...
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Who Am I This Time?

Who Am I This Time is the name of a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut and made into a...
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Climbing Back On-

Riders know this lesson; if you get bucked off you have to climb back on. That’s the rule. Horse or...
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A Lesson in Change.

The head of the herd at Infinity Farm is the kind of horse you might call Grandfather- with reverence. He...
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Horse Cruelty, Ignored.

Anna Sewell authored Black Beauty in 1877. She wrote the book to educate about animal cruelty and promote a more...
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Helmets and Freedom.

A friend of mine volunteered at a nursing home. One of the patients there was always talking about riding and...
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Tracking Resolutions

New Year's is the traditional day that we reflect on self improvement- meaning that we begin the New Year by...
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Holiday Messages…

           "Peace on Earth", -The Wild Texas Wind, aka Windy, Infinity Farm Matriarch.                     "Good Will to All" -Holliday, Infinity Farm...
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A Pony for Christmas

Who hasn’t begged for a pony for Christmas? My generation scrutinized the color plates of horse breeds in the H...
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Holiday Half-Halt.

  “The threat of Christmas hung in the air…” This is a stressful time of the year. Some of the...
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When I Die, Can I Come Back as Your Horse?

I have heard that line a few too many times. I guess it's meant to be funny. I was flattered once when a...
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Words from Edgar Rice Burro on Thanks-giving.

“Slow down. No one’s tombstone ever says ‘I wish I would have mucked faster.’” Edgar has lots of opinion when...
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