Weekly Photo Challenge: Careful
Be careful to listen; careful to draw close on navy blue nights. Let the clouds be a nearness of spirit...
Health Insurance and Horse Dreams
Foot surgery this Friday--it's like preparing for a trip that I don't get to take. All the stress of canceling...
Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary
(Extra)ordinary: Maybe it's a choice; just a fuller way of embracing the ordinary. If we keep our eyes fresh and...
On Being an Old Gray Mare With Chronic Lameness
It's a shooting pain. Usually my foot is brick-tight and I can't bend my toes. When I do manage to...
Upcoming Book Talks and Upcoming Books!
I was that kid; in junior high school, I routinely turned in twelve page book reports when two pages were...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy Place
It's no surprise--my Happy Place is always with the herd. Here's the Grandfather Horse. I'm hoping winter will be kind...
Your Horse is NOT Your Therapist.
There's a cartoon of a roadside stand with a horse inside. The sign says, "Therapy." We all smile because we're...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries
Arthur is very pleased to note that I have placed 'goat nests' in the runs. And if that isn't enough,...
Anthropomorphic Thoughts About Spaying Mares.
He said we don't need to import sport horses; we have great horses right here; we're under-using great mares. More...
Little Engines, Indie Bookstores, and Chug, Chug, Chug…
Confession: I've never read The Little Engine That Could. I'm pretty fluent in the classics, too, just not children's classics....
Permission to NOT Ride.
Last Tuesday I had an 8 a.m. lesson with a boarder and her sweet gelding. He's had a good summer;...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grid
A fence is a grid of separation. It's used to keep some of us inside and to keep others of...
Listening with Your Seat.
How's your derrière? Is posterior a more delicate word than rump? Our culture has a lot of fanny chatter: too...
Politics, Typing, and the Right Tool for the Job.
My computer is up on blocks. Like an old rusted-out Chevy, it's balanced on top of two eyeglass cases that...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Monochromatic.
The best barn cats are monochromatic; they blend in. Unobtrusive lurkers, they're the color of dirt, hay, and shadow. A...
Dressage Factions and the Real Reason to Compete.
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to the art of dressage. I love the structure, the fundamentals, the words of...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Connected.
Most of us see herd dominance as a line--alpha to the "bottom." It's a limited one-dimensional view. When was...
Goats: A Different 12 Step Program.
It just hasn't been the same since Sumo died. He was my last old-goat-standing and a card-carrying anarchist. He'd been...
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Enter your name and email to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.