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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime
Nighttime at the barn is when the edges between now and then blur. Sometimes in the gloaming, there is movement...
A Call to Arms. (or how to get on the wrong side of a horseperson.)
You've had this happen. Someone finds out you have a horse and they ask, “Do you know my sister’s friend,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Endurance
Endurance is the main ingredient in old age. My Grandfather horse has endured infirmity, climate change, and the weight of...
Ground Play, Cavalia style!
My Clara, at liberty and trotting up fast. This week, I attended Cavalia, the Cirque du...
A Cowgirl looks (squints) at 60.
88 Years of (combined) excellence. I notice I wear my glasses in the shower more often...
Breath: The Miracle Cue.
It might be the word I say more often than any other during a lesson. I know it's the cue...
*Needs Confident Rider*
*Needs a confident rider*. If you see those words while paging though horse ads, what do you think? Used car salesmen...
Wordpress Photo Challenge: Fray.
There is a place that is not the earth and not the sky, an in-between place where some of us...
A Recipe for Patience.
I want to start by saying I used to consider patience the exact same thing as procrastination. I had no...
What does the horsie say? Seriously.
Our barn rat, Hannah, didn't meet the horses her first visit to the farm. She was only 3 days old....
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