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.

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Jolene Gets a Job. Not the One You Think.

We were in a different pen than usual, and it was horribly windy. That’s the excuse you might make if...
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Jolene Says, Doesn’t My Title Entitle Me to Something?

Jolene expects that we will have an adventure every single day. Mister hopes we don't. He likes to keep it...
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Jolene Just Knows the One Word

I'm starting to look like Garrison Keillor. You know, if I dyed my hair brown. I'm not bragging, just stating...
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Jolene Learns the Meaning of Competition

That morning, we got up at the usual time, but I didn't go out to do chores. Instead, I took...
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Aging Cantankerously: Downsize This!

Ten days after solstice and it's already staying light longer. Want to wish me a happy one-year-older? On January first,...
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To Have a Dog Like Jolene

  Mister is trying out his new self-appointed position of Joy Police. Someone has got to put a stop to...
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Jolene Gets the Girl Flu

I didn’t know whether I should mention this. Is it too private to share? For questions of social etiquette, I...
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Hungover, Jolene Meets The Weather of Her People

The leftovers are gone, the pie plates back in the cupboard, and Parental Peas, Parker and Penny, have headed back...
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Family on Thanksgiving: Jolene’s Heart is Full

Remember that Thanksgiving painting by Norman Rockwell? With a jovial white-bread family leaning into frame with smiling, delighted faces? A...
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Jolene’s Bathroom Habits

It was a bathroom sort of week here, in that way that the entire universe can fit in a small...
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