Photo Challenge & Poem: Serene
The cowboys I knew didn't dress like the movies. No neckerchiefs or fancy Mexican spurs. They wore easy smiles under...
Calming Signals and Pain
First, last, and always, make sure your horse is sound. That's the warning that any decent equine professional gives...
Thanksgiving from a Cowboy Girl
You could tell it was the 1980's because I'd done something with my hair that made me look like a...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Experimental
They live with us now, hooves half in their own history and half in ours, so closely inbred that our...
Trust: A Suspension of Disbelief.
You love horses. No, you really, really love horses. Because they are so amazing. We share videos of blind horses cared...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Temporary
He has walked on from this place into memory, this creature of heart and spirit. He can't remember a time...
Circles: A Soft Bend
I'd led a sheltered life. I was thirty years old before I visited my first Saddlebred barn. I was just...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Peek
Did he want to be invisible? As still as wood, his head holds solitude in the corner. This bay...
The Middle Path: Why Gaits Matter
Let's say you like to jump and so does your Arabian. Let's say you do endurance on an Appaloosa. Let’s...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Rounded
The whorl beneath a forelock, the velvet comma nostrils, the curve of a neck, the serpentine of a spine,...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Glow
The sun hurries now, eager to be gone. A chill breeze scatters the last embers of fall, crisp leaves layer...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Pedestrian
Young mare, on the full-moon night you were born, we recognized one another. It was an awkward kinship of un-belonging,...
Making War on Horses: Is it Leadership?
By reader request: "Horses need a dominant leader; you have to make him respect you." "You can't let him get away...
Photo Challenge: Windows
Has it been a year? Scanning the pasture from the kitchen sink, I don't see your swayed back. A...
How to be a Brilliant Conversationalist: Horse Version
You know how the cat magically goes to the person with the allergy? Or she goes the person who happens...
How to Relieve Your Horse's Anxiety
Growing up, only one person in our home was allowed to have a temper and the rest of us kept...
Horsewoman. Internet. Wine.
It's been a melancholy week at Infinity Farm. I'd call it the dog days of summer but truth is that...
Redefining Work Under Saddle.
I had a blog request, in two parts. First: "[Does] training and working a horse inherently make a horse less...
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