Photo Challenge: Solitude
Out on the fringe of wrong, and late, and forgotten, and just not being a match, hold and...
Email Subject Line: "Do I Want a Horse?"
February 2nd, 10 pm, 12 degrees. There was dense fog all day. We didn't see the sun and the temperature stayed...
Energetic Tidiness in the Saddle.
Some of us climb into the saddle and have all kinds of crazy dangerous things happen--right out of the blue. We...
Photo Challenge: Grace-ful
It's an intimate moment, a recognition of soul, held and acknowledged, then returned in kind. Softly now, abide. .... Anna Blake at...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
Photo Challenge: Ambience
It’s the pastel light, the thin clear air, and a shared breath so deep and sweet: Even as I travel...
Safety and Being a Spoil Sport.
I'm a riding instructor. Wait, it's worse than that. A riding instructor who has read the small print of her liability...
Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying
It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
The Politics of Holiday Pie
Inconceivable: I'm going to share my pie recipe. I'll pause and give my friends time to pick themselves up. They know...
Photo Challenge: Anticipation
Long shadows at noon, cramped days slip to bitter nights this dark solstice. Waiting for new light a minute at a time....
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