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.
Wake-up Call from Mother Nature. For the Millionth Time.
I haven't missed a blog posting in over five and a half years, and I won't now, but this one...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Door
I have pounded on some mighty doors and been locked out of others. I've even kicked a few in. I...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
Sometimes I see a father playing with his child, tossing her in the air and catching her, holding her tight...
Buying the Right to Make a Correction.
She's Tomboy. I don't write about her often enough; she's a little more serious than my corgi men. She's a...
Calming Signals and Equine Gastric Ulcers.
These are two of my favorite topics and I write about them often, but this post is about how calming...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid
The memories are as vivid as black and white, as stark as night and day, and as real as skin...
How Much Longer Do You Think You Can Do This?
"How much longer do you think you can do this?" This week I received a blog request. You see, the...
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Un)Broken
I usually glide through these photo challenges, feeling amused and clever. I struggled with this one. Broken is a word...
The Long Goodbye: Meet Vinnie
It makes perfect sense to tell the story of an off-the-track Thoroughbred in the midst of the Triple Crown frenzy--with...
How a Runaway Happens.
You know that feeling when a wreck is going to happen but you just can't look away? It's a magnetic,...
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