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Poetry for People Who Think They Don't Like Poetry

  I had a boyfriend my junior year of high school. That, in itself, is shocking if you knew me....
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Photo Challenge: Corner

The first hint comes just at moon rise on an ordinary August weeknight. It's hardly a breeze at all, certainly...
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How to Relieve Your Horse's Anxiety

Growing up, only one person in our home was allowed to have a temper and the rest of us kept...
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Photo Challenge: Shiny

  Birdwatching in the dark is an art best practiced with no yard light. Start just after the colors are...
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Horsewoman. Internet. Wine.

It's been a melancholy week at Infinity Farm. I'd call it the dog days of summer but truth is that...
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Photo Challenge: Elemental

I remembered to sink the corner post deep, filled the hole with Quikcrete, and topped it off with dirt. Then...
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Redefining Work Under Saddle.

I had a blog request, in two parts. First: "[Does] training and working a horse inherently make a horse less...
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Photo Challenge: Textures

  She was a coyote fighter, moving just off the herd, across the high desert prairie. Buying her calves time...
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Part Three: Riding Above Fear

This is what we knew then: It started with a dream of dancing hooves and a flowing mane. He was...
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Photo Challenge: Satisfaction

  The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
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Things to Not Say When Someone’s Horse Dies.

I've been tinkering with this essay since my Grandfather Horse died five years ago, but it would have been ungrateful...
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Part Two: Now I'm Afraid

[Part One: My Horse Betrayed Me.] Something bad happened. The details don't need to be repeated for me to understand. It...
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Dysfunctional Fetching and an Anniversary

It's been two years since Stable Relation launched with all the Fourth of July fireworks I could imagine. It was the...
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Photo Challenge: Unusual

It's not unusual to feel still air rush over your cheeks and past your ears. It's you moving forward in...
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Part One: My Horse Betrayed Me.

I hear lots of horror stories in my line of work. "My horse just started bucking, for no good reason." "He...
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Photo Challenge: Collage

How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
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Common Sense about Horse Communication

The first thing to remember about horses is that their senses are just better than ours. I’ve never trusted my...
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Photo Challenge: Bridge

  The frail filament strands that suspend us in parallel travel are intricately woven back onto themselves, situated so cleverly...
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