Reciprocity: A Softer Ask, a Softer Bend
I overheard some riders complaining like old campaigners. Asking a horse for bend sounded like the Hundred Years' War. They...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure
Not politics, religion; not money or guns. Answer deep and pure, in our heart, soul; our Earth and Sun. ~~~Read...
Mansplaining in the Barn
Thirty-five years ago, I stood with a group of women protesting a murder sentence given by a judge in Denver....
Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers
Yellow solstice to blue. I’ve lost count of the seasons. Was that the year of the big blizzard? Or was...
Women as Predators.
Do you identify as a predator? I was at a horse show a few years back, helping a client. It...
Shrews for Shakespeare
I was an above average student, as long as I could avoid any science class involving frogs. Then in junior...
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...
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...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Jubilant
When understatement is enough. Read more
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...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Face
“Curiosity is a sign of courage,” my trainer said, hushing my correction. Enthusiastic praise for my colt chasing her...
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...
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...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth
Proclaim the ordinary for its singular wonder. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to...
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...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration
“Oh, just admiration,” the gray horsewoman said, pale eyes deep in tan skin. “Always kinda liked ’em…” But when she...
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...
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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