Relaxed & Forward Blog

Weekly Photo & Poem Challenge: Spare

She’s a spare donkey, no longer of use since the cattle were sold, since the rancher moved to town. She’s...
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How to Defuse a Horse Bomb

Maybe you're mentally arranging your to-do list, or rehashing an imaginary rant about something that happened at work, or just...
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Do You Inspire Your Horse?

Do you inspire your horse? Does he volunteer more than you ask? Are you proud of who you are in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Face

  “Curiosity is a sign of courage,” my trainer said, hushing my correction. Enthusiastic praise for my colt chasing her...
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Talking About the Future with Your Vet.

Are you happy with your veterinarian? It's the question I ask when a client loses a horse or has a...
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We Had a Book Club Before Oprah.

We formed a book club before it was popular. You can tell by our dated name: Women who read too...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth

Proclaim the ordinary for its singular wonder.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to...
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What I Didn't Know Then

It seems that most things I learn about horses, I learn in hindsight. It's not a bad thing. Horses learn...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration

“Oh, just admiration,” the gray horsewoman said, pale eyes deep in tan skin. “Always kinda liked ’em…” But when she...
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Freak Riding Accident? Hardly. (Helmets, Please)

The horse world has lost some good riders in the last few weeks. Sadly, it happens all too often. Horses...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract

Abstract, overlap, and the sun of the parts. I mean sum.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is...
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Beyond the Fence Line.

I have a neighbor, a couple of properties to the north, who brings his cattle home to calve each spring....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime

Dinnertime sounds of peaceable chewing; a rhythm of family such as we are. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge...
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A Cautionary Tale About Sleeping Around.

We heard about Arthur, who had reached that certain age in the life of a young goat, just as we...
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When I Met You.

Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo. Let me start by saying it was never my fantasy to spend a...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Future

Future A reckoning comes at the end of the day. A chance to notice the continuum between here and there,...
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Is That Horse Hot or Fearful? The Importance of Relaxation

It's a question I've asked groups lately, "How can you tell the difference between a hot horse and a fearful...
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