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Weekly Photo Challenge: Half and Half

Polarities Bold and timid. Turbulent and still. Deliberate and spontaneous. Stoic and emotional. Powerful and frail. Physical and spiritual. Eternal...
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Consistency: Doing Math in the Saddle.

Consistency is a great aid but do you know how it actually works? There's an analogy I heard decades ago...
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Thank You Cards and a Book Event!

It isn't that I never learned to say thank you. You can bet I did. I just never knew about...
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What Is Home?

Yes, it's a book review, but I couldn't help myself.
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Symbol

You know the best symbol for a horse, don't you? The one that says all is well; healthy horses are...
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Wake-up Call from Mother Nature. For the Millionth Time.

I haven't missed a blog posting in over five and a half years, and I won't now, but this one...
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Crowdfunding–The Old-fashioned Kind.

My friend Coy is on vacation with Stable Relation. Here they are at the airport. I admit I came a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Door

I have pounded on some mighty doors and been locked out of others. I've even kicked a few in. I...
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The Runaway Book Launch.

I had a plan. Not that it matters, but I did. Every time I arrive to give a riding lesson...
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The Thing About Horses and Healing: a Memoir.

We see them from the road and use phones to take photos. We keep a legal distance but most of...
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The Yin-Yang of the In Between. (Book release July 13th.)

Remember at the end of the first Terminator movie when all the flesh was burned off Arnold and the shiny...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse

Sometimes I see a father playing with his child, tossing her in the air and catching her, holding her tight...
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Buying the Right to Make a Correction.

She's Tomboy. I don't write about her often enough; she's a little more serious than my corgi men. She's a...
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Gifted Balls, and a Date to Hold.

A few weeks ago, a woman called me for horse boarding information. She was looking for a place for a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: "ROY G. BIV."

"ROY G. BIV." is a lousy acronym for the colors of the rainbow. Who ever thought this was a clever...
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How to Ride like a Kid.

Remember riding when you were a kid? We climbed on top from a gate or a truck bumper. No bridle,...
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Judging a Book by its Cover.

Designing a cover. No big deal really. First, you spend heart and soul telling a story, early mornings and late...
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