Photo Challenge: Against the Odds
Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
What To Do When Your Horse Is Wrong
It started small. It started the way it usually starts; the rider pulled on her horse's face. It's a fundamental disagreement:...
Photo Challenge: Shadow
I mean to blur the edge, a half-stop between dark and light, of the distance between us. He's walked on from this...
Thin Horses, Body Scoring, and Inconvenience.
Start here: There is no rule that says when a horse's age goes up, his weight needs to come down. Age is no excuse...
Photo Challenge: Solitude
Out on the fringe of wrong, and late, and forgotten, and just not being a match, hold and...
Email Subject Line: "Do I Want a Horse?"
February 2nd, 10 pm, 12 degrees. There was dense fog all day. We didn't see the sun and the temperature stayed...
Photo Challenge: Repurpose
All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
Energetic Tidiness in the Saddle.
Some of us climb into the saddle and have all kinds of crazy dangerous things happen--right out of the blue. We...
Amazon Recommends My Books. To Me.
Do you ever have that experience where you tilt your head, squint, and hear a dubious voice in your head...
Photo Challenge: Grace-ful
It's an intimate moment, a recognition of soul, held and acknowledged, then returned in kind. Softly now, abide. .... Anna Blake at...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
Photo Challenge: Ambience
It’s the pastel light, the thin clear air, and a shared breath so deep and sweet: Even as I travel...
Release: The Unflattering Truth
A few weeks ago, I was standing, talking with a client at the end of her lesson. She was at...
Photo Challenge: Names
Hold clean intention in the word chosen to label a life given to your care; words are prayers that illuminate...
Safety and Being a Spoil Sport.
I'm a riding instructor. Wait, it's worse than that. A riding instructor who has read the small print of her liability...
Photo Challenge: Resilient
This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying
It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
Photo Challenge: Path
Perhaps the reason for my books... just trying to keep up.
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