The Best Reasons to Stop Riding
I think I've heard all the clichés about change that I can stand. At a certain age, we don't...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Quest
Go the distance. Do it with grace or do it ugly, because some days that's what your best looks like. It...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge
It's that time of day/ year/ life. Balanced close enough to the edge that gravity goes pastel light and the...
Photo Challenge: Cherry on Top
Maybe it’s just simple math. The cumulative tally of giving versus withholding. Of offering open space for a wisp of an...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers
Yellow solstice to blue. I’ve lost count of the seasons. Was that the year of the big blizzard? Or was...
What I Didn't Know Then
It seems that most things I learn about horses, I learn in hindsight. It's not a bad thing. Horses learn...
Beyond the Fence Line.
I have a neighbor, a couple of properties to the north, who brings his cattle home to calve each spring....
Valentine's Day and a Goat Tail. I Mean Tale.
Is it too soon to say the word? Sure, there's more snow coming. You'd be nuts to pack away the...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Time
It would be a good thing to make friends with time. In these last years, I think it's the thing...
On Women, Bravery, and Being Old Gray Mares
Do you have a mentor? Someone you respect who's just a few strides ahead of you, and when they go...
Health Insurance and Horse Dreams
Foot surgery this Friday--it's like preparing for a trip that I don't get to take. All the stress of canceling...
On Being an Old Gray Mare With Chronic Lameness
It's a shooting pain. Usually my foot is brick-tight and I can't bend my toes. When I do manage to...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place
It's no surprise--my Happy Place is always with the herd. Here's the Grandfather Horse. I'm hoping winter will be kind...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inspiration.
"Just a horse." A $600. stud colt. Out of Nifty Sally; no pedigree to speak of. Not especially athletic. ...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
Sometimes I see a father playing with his child, tossing her in the air and catching her, holding her tight...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid
The memories are as vivid as black and white, as stark as night and day, and as real as skin...
Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way (to Forever)
Another day rolls on and another night creeps forward, on the way to the place mortality rests. If there is...
Horses and Tulips.
At some distant moment in the past, probably after seeing The Miracle of the White Stallions when I was a...
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