Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season
Mud splashing almost always off-season here in Colorado, but this year the pond flooded so many times in May that...
Calming Signals and Equine Gastric Ulcers.
These are two of my favorite topics and I write about them often, but this post is about how calming...
Gatekeepers and Temple Grandin
I went to hear Temple Grandin speak this week. I'm not sure how many times I've seen her now, but...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vivid
The memories are as vivid as black and white, as stark as night and day, and as real as skin...
Respecting Your "Other" Space
I assume your horse respects your space; that on the ground he stands a couple of feet away, relaxed and...
Friendship and Honesty
"Stop it, can't you just smile? You're so much prettier when you smile." My mother was right on one level....
Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Way (to Forever)
Another day rolls on and another night creeps forward, on the way to the place mortality rests. If there is...
How Much Longer Do You Think You Can Do This?
"How much longer do you think you can do this?" This week I received a blog request. You see, the...
The Irony of Memoir.
Do you read much memoir? I've been reading almost nothing but memoir these last two years. It started with wanting...
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Un)Broken
From my other blog, but more appropriate here...
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Un)Broken
I usually glide through these photo challenges, feeling amused and clever. I struggled with this one. Broken is a word...
The Long Goodbye: Meet Vinnie
It makes perfect sense to tell the story of an off-the-track Thoroughbred in the midst of the Triple Crown frenzy--with...
Uncomfortable Things.
May I start by saying I think we can all agree that introverts can be party poopers sometimes. I mean,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Enveloped
The prairie sky leans in closer at night, weaving a soft cocoon around our farm. We are enveloped with a...
How a Runaway Happens.
You know that feeling when a wreck is going to happen but you just can't look away? It's a magnetic,...
A Job that Needs Doing…
One of my first apartments after leaving home had a nasty-cold floor in the bathroom. Winter was coming, so I...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Forces of Nature.
Gravity--it's a dependable force of nature. Look how well it works. (Gravity Hiccup) Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. WordPress Photo Challenge...
To Rest in Peace.
They aren't getting any younger. Most of us spend a certain amount of time between riding and mucking, just watching...
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