Photo Challenge: Nostalgia
In a dark rosy blur of nostalgia, free of time and fear, images rise to tell the story of who we became, just a half-step...
The Truth Behind Bit Drama
Do you know how your bit works? No, I mean really. Not some cowboy-on-YouTube's fantasy about horses needing to learn to carry...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Quest
Go the distance. Do it with grace or do it ugly, because some days that's what your best looks like. It...
Ride Shorter, Progress Farther.
If I were to write a training book entitled Less is More, it would be hundreds of pages long. The...
Weekly Photo Challenge:
Nothing. There isn't one this week. When a cloud has a thought cloud and even then, nothing to say. ......
You're a Timid Rider?
What if it isn't a bad thing? I have a "big picture" thing I want to say and it's going...
Going Where You're Invited
Lately I've been haunted by this drumming thought: Now would be a good time to do something smart. It doesn't...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge
It's that time of day/ year/ life. Balanced close enough to the edge that gravity goes pastel light and the...
Serenity NOW! (Training Calmness)
She wrote, "I struggle with him to stand still. I suspect he recognizes I am nervous."I'm answering an email question...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror
There's a mirror flashing a signal, a code that lights my pond blue: I'll watch now. You rest. ... Anna...
Halt, Rein-back, Cha-cha-cha.
This is how it feels: It's a trot that's resistance free. He glides with relaxed strides. At first you think...
How I Spent Your Summer Vacation.
Do you ever have that feeling that you're watching a foreign film, only it's broad daylight and your own life?...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame
Wear black and drink the gallery wine. Formulate an intellectual opinion. Consider your emotions. Or Show so much tooth your...
The Fine Art of Cantankery.
I've had a hard time acting my age. That's not it, exactly. It's more like I'm straddling the Grand Canyon...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
Such hopeful ease, confidence in the face of contrary possibility, is rare for man. Anna Blake at Infinity Farm...
Judging Dressage
Dressage isn't perfect, but what part is baby and what part is bath water? Watching the Dressage competition at the...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun
The secret he bleated was repeated with a neigh and a bray: hooray for today! ... *apologies to anyone looking...
A Trailer of One's Own
A horsewoman told me that, at sixty-three, she was the proud owner of her very first horse trailer. I let...
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