Relaxed & Forward Blog

Left in the Dust: Your Ridiculously Slow Response Time.

Have you noticed that horses are incredibly quicker than we are? I'm going to tell you the good news about...
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How to Begin…

   I agree with Ms. Parker. The first difference between those-who-write and the rest of our species is that some...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

              Scale is when one recognizable object is used to define the size of...
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The Stepford Horses, Dominated to Submission.

Remember the Stepford Wives--a little too submissive, a little too darkly docile? I saw horses just like them last week...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Depth.

Yesterday I had a conversation with a long-time horsewoman that touched on all aspects of horse/life. Both of us have...
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Small Lives, Literary Aspirations.

Irony--I love it. It's right up there with self-deprecating humor. O'Connor wrote Good Country People--she knew something about writing and...
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Why I Like Bad-Dogs.

I wasn't always this way. There was a time when I was a serial Golden Retriever owner. I wanted a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Express Yourself.

Yes, the right to free speech is alive and well here at Infinity Farm, and since this week's  prompt is...
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Seeing Things Like Horses Do.

We see things differently than horses.  And like usual, I think we should try to be more like them. To...
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Reading and Writing and Waiting.

In a counter-intuitive way, it's a huge accomplishment to get my first rejection letter today. It means at least someone...
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Weekly Photo Challenge- Serenity.

Serenity is the creative act of resting your mind on an instant of simplicity in a fast-changing and complicated world....
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The Everyday Value of Dressage.

Is your horse a different person under-saddle? Maybe tacking up is all good, but once you are ready to mount,...
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It's a memoir of coming to Infinity Farm.

  Moving to the high prairie was hard in the beginning–it was so different from what I’d known. It took...
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Photo Challenge- Shadowed

Moving to the high prairie was hard in the beginning--it was so different from what I'd known. It took a...
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The Last Goat Standing.

I've been trying to not write about goats all week. I wanted to write something inspiring about art and dressage....
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Weekly Photo Challenge- New.

What if new was more of a state of mind than a date stamp. What if the opposite of new...
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The New Year's Resolution that Matters.

It's been a great year at Infinity Farm. I'm thrilled to say no one died. It's kind of a miracle--all...
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