RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.
Horsewoman, Has Your Neighborhood Gone to the Dogs?
I traipsed across Minnesota and North Dakota through factory farms and cemeteries this summer. Trying to link childhood memories with...
How Long Does It Take To Train a Horse?
I have a herd of relatively normal retired horses. And then this gang of raconteurs, misanthropes, and dangerous characters, referred...
Unusual Behavior Isn’t a Training Issue
It's time for my annual announcement. Your horse doesn't have a training problem. It isn't a brain tumor, and he...
When There’s No Room At The Inn…
Even on holidays, our family dinners don't look like other people's. Neither do our hands or shoes. We look different;...
A Funny Thing Happened During the Euthanasia.
We've been having llama line dances here for over twenty years. It happens at dusk and it is boundingly beautiful....
Life Coach: The Goat Version
It was a beautiful end-of-summer afternoon, just about feeding time. Cupid had been with us a few months by then....
Photo Challenge & Poem: Cheeky
He's a goat who's had a bit of a weight problem since the cast came off. A free spirit, butting...
Photo Challenge: Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHCTZqU3p4 One likes to be alone. One likes to sleep a lot. One likes contrary opinions. One doesn't care what...
Photo Challenge: Security
The feel of home. You tuck it safe in some tidy place, half-way between fresh dreams and dear memories. If...
Photo Challenge: A Good Match
A contrarian and a curmudgeon; fairy tale non-believers with parallel differences, kindly melding the gaps. Together. Separately. .... Anna Blake at Infinity...
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