When Horses Ask For Help
She is a woman of a certain age. A retired wildlife biologist who wears Crocs when weather permits, and muck...
Calming Signals and Playing Poker with Horses.
I can't remember my age when I first saw Dogs Playing Poker, the famous painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. It...
Calming Signals: In Honor of a Truck Dog
It's Corgi tufting season. I gather enough hair in my mouth to build a bird's nest hourly. It's effortless, but...
Count to Three and Jump… It’s a New Year
It's the week between Christmas and New Years. And call it a holiday tradition, but I have no idea what...
Horsewomen and the Reverse Banana Peel Approach
Do you ever just stop in your tracks, look at your (insert your choice: horse, dog, child) and go blank?...
How To Become a Horse Whisperer
In fifth grade, they pulled us out of class for hearing tests. They clamped skinny black headphones on us and...
A Problem with the Word “Connection”
I feel it in my bones like a rusty joint before a rainstorm. An itch that flopping around in a...
Thanksgiving Traditions: Both Light or Dark, Please
Over the river and through the woods, To grandmother’s house we go. The horse knows the way to carry...
How the Farm Says Thank You. (Audio)
Happy Thanksgiving from Infinity Farm and The Gray Mare Podcast.
... Relaxed and Forward Training by Anna Blake...
Calming Signals: Haunted by a Black Cat in a Pink Dress.
I was taking the trash out to the dumpster in the alley. As I reached the back gate, I saw...
Problem Solving and Hay In Our Bras.
It blurted out the end of my fingers before I knew it. "Eventually I learned how to keep hay out...
The Pendulum of Change Doth Swing. I’ll Be In the Barn.
It started snowing the night before last and snowed all yesterday. The wind speed was higher than the temperature. That...
Halloween: Twenty-Five Years on This Farm
It's a special day here on Infinity Farm. I signed loan papers on this property on the last day of...
Can You Afford a Pet?
I never thought I'd say this. Me, of all people. But do you ever think we might need some balance...
The Art of Un-Training a Horse
The first video is of a Mustang, proud and breathtakingly beautiful. He's a burnished smoky buckskin, with a...
Grumbling and Stumbling Toward Change
I'm coming up on the anniversary of moving to my farm twenty-five years ago. It coincides with my dysfunctional affair...
The Long Ear Answer to Humans Doing Everything The Hard Way
"I am not sure why horse people are especially prone to doing things the most difficult way possible, but it's...
Wild or Tame: Trust Actions Above Words
This is my neighborhood. That's Pikes Peak peering over the horizon, exactly where it was when I bought the farm....
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