An Affirmation of a Life Shared with Animals.
It's springtime in the Rockies. The time change was last weekend, so I'm waking up at three am now, but...
Nube: What If This Isn’t Wrong?
My first ex-husband used to tease me about my frantic love of shortcuts. I was always up early, on the...
The Joy of Imperfection
We are sick to death of the violence against horses. It isn't just the damage caused by rollkur in reining...
Are We Over-training Our Horses?
My Grandfather Horse was so good with latches he could have broken out of Alcatraz and made it back to...
The Gap Between Wanting a Horse and Having the Horse You Want
Sometimes it happens behind a trailer. The horse needs a moment, but the human is in a hurry. Horses and...
Nube: More Dark Clouds and Questions With No Answers
The worst thing about remembering a horse in the past is that maybe there are current options that your horse...
Nube: Dark Clouds and Questions With No Answers
Nube (Nu-bay) was particular. He required my undivided attention in the saddle and on the ground. My focus had to...
How To Buy a Horse
He was a bay gelding in his teens when we met. A Quarter Horse with a bit of a downhill...
Edgar Rice Burro. All He is Saying is Give Peace A Chance.
Yet another horse trainer got tarred and feathered on social media this week. It happens all the time. People jumped...
Trainer Love: In Memory of Seri
Seri died this week. She was never my horse, but she is part of the trainer I've become. Seri was...
Nube’s Ulcers: What We Can’t Control and What We Can.
When Nube (nu-bay) was two and first diagnosed with ulcers, it felt rare, almost exotic. People were just learning about...
Resolutions and Horse Dreams
It's the twilight zone between holidays, meandering like a long, slow-motion hangover. I have no idea what day it is...
Culture Wars in the Barn
There is a recent article in the NYT about the culture wars going on in dog training that's worth reading....
Horse Training Means Affirmative Waiting
Humans, aren't we swell? Compared to horses, we have dim, frail senses, we're seven times slower in our response time,...
What It Means to Love a Horse
I'm talking to a new client who contacted me for help, asking them to tell me about their horse. They...
Famous Cruelty, Ordinary Cruelty, and an Affirmative Solution
Another story of cruelty hit the international press last week. Operation X documented horrors happening in a well-known Danish...
Thanksgiving: Our First Horse Was a Dog
Meet my dogs, Preacher Man, Mister, and Jack. They're in the doorway to my writing studio. It's Thanksgiving night, which...
Euthanizing Your Horse: How to Trust Yourself
It's colder now. The leaves are gone. The wind charges at us from the north, and the temperature drops ten...
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