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Touchy About Contact

Question from a reader with a mouth-sensitive green horse: " ...when I watch a video of me riding I worry that...
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Composing a Writer #3. Comfortable Creativity

The first time you saw him, he was hurrying down the street, hat brim pulled low, and his cape flying...
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Photo Challenge: Dense

Stupid. Dense. Stubborn. Lazy. Until we stop seeing others in our own worst self-image, these words will describe us. .......
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Circling Back: How We Became One.

We were hooked and it was written all over us. The first weird looks passed between our parents. We were...
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Composing a Writer #2. Just Write

We're big talkers. We debate and dream and create. There are issues that good people should agree about on but...
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Photo Challenge: Easy Being Green

  I’ll take this gray rain to wet a controlled burn in my lungs that’s taken my air and dropped...
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What Are Your Legs Doing? (Half-halt Help)

  How are the half-halts coming? Does a breath and a light thigh pulse work? Or are your legs exhausted by the end...
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Composing a Writer. #1 Tools of the Trade

Everybody has a list of wishes, some more idle than others. Early retirement is an idle wish if you aren't...
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Photo Challenge: Atop

  It's an inherited seat; elders and babies ride loose in time, strong and vulnerable and not quite domesticated. Sky-tall and exquisitely...
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The Mysterious Half-Halt

Thanks to a request, I'm writing about the half-halt. Ever notice how every definition you read starts with the disclaimer that it's the...
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Photo Challenge: Wish

We felt them close before we had skin; from an infinite prairie the vibration began. A slow rolling nicker rumbled,...
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Do You Communicate Like a Coyote?

Some of us baby-talk and cuddle our horses like they're twelve-hundred-pound teddy bears. Some of us enter the pen with...
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Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.

  Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
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Part Two: Norman, Is That You? (The Reactive Horse)

Last week, I wrote about horses who are The Strong Silent Type. This horse is the opposite. Describing him sounds...
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Now What? (and Other News)

Now is the winter of my discontent. Hurry spring. A post from my other blog. Yes, I have another blog....
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Now What? (and Other News)

Now is the winter of my discontent.  Okay, maybe I'm being Shakespeare-dramatic. Monochromatic seasons can bring that out in me....
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Photo Challenge: A Good Match

A contrarian and a curmudgeon; fairy tale non-believers with parallel differences, kindly melding the gaps. Together. Separately. .... Anna Blake at Infinity...
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Part One: The Strong Silent Type (Of Horse)

I've said it before: While growing up, I saw She Wore a Yellow Ribbon more often than I saw my...
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