As Impatient as Preacher.
This is my rescue dog from Texas. He got his name during a car trip from a pound to the...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate
This beautiful world is an intricate balance of fine detail and huge brush strokes, of yearning and satisfaction, of unthinkable...
Cowboys, Dressage Queens, and Respect.
I got badmouthed by a cowboy recently. He dressed the part way too seriously. It’s okay, in dressage we think...
Claiming My Space in a New Herd.
I don't think I've ever once checked to see who the actual publisher was of any of the books I've...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion.
It's all fun and games until... ...somebody takes a dive. (He's fine. He meant to do that.) Anna Blake, Infinity...
How to Train Your Horse to Hate Arena Work.
Does your horse go better out of the arena? It seems like some horses just won't go forward and no...
Publishers, Beware.
This is my Grandfather Horse. He had a birthday this week--you don't want to know how old his is. He...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Early Bird.
Before I came to live on the prairie, I always thought bird-watching was for eggheads; something for people with no...
How to Listen to Your Horse.
I had a friend who visited my farm during my first years here. She arrived for the weekend with books...
Aspiring to a Goat-like Confidence…
In the late 80's, I got asked to a Toad the Wet Sprocket concert by a teenage boy I knew. He...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Afloat.
Afloat: Llamas are animals from another planet; everything about them is sideways of the usual. They look like badly put-together...
Walter on Positive Pet/Vet Training.
Thanks for not mentioning my big nasty scab. I woke up last week with a corgi toenail inside my ear....
A Reluctant Reality Show.
Let me start by saying I absolutely hate the idea of reality shows. They first started during a writers strike,...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur.
A wild thunderstorm rolled through during the afternoon of a sweltering blur of a day. Sweat and rain mixed, leaving...
Horses and Tulips.
At some distant moment in the past, probably after seeing The Miracle of the White Stallions when I was a...
Uncharted Waters, But Not Lost.
My favorite books are always the ones that tell the story of how it came to pass that we became...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ephemeral.
Like a northern breeze across the prairie: just an instant of a moment in an hour of her life. Forever...
When to Dismount and Say Thank You.
The post-ride congratulatory noodle. "Asking your horse to hold your weight at the halt, like gossiping...
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