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Caring for the Lead Mare

It was a perfect day. There were just enough clouds to soften the heat. The front gate didn't open once all day...
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Mounting Block Conversations

This is Andante. He likes to have a conversation at the mounting block. He wasn't always like this. In his...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Circling Back: How We Became One.

We were hooked and it was written all over us. The first weird looks passed between our parents. We were...
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Do You Communicate Like a Coyote?

Some of us baby-talk and cuddle our horses like they're twelve-hundred-pound teddy bears. Some of us enter the pen with...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Photo Challenge: It’s Not This Time of Year Without…

  bucking tradition: when seasonal words don't fit when obligation overwhelms desire when some mourn or have none or do not when the...
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The Passion to Punish

First, last, and always, this is the truth about communication with animals: Punishment is the lowest form of expression. A...
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