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.
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...
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