RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.
Fecal Sample Anyone?
First- thanks for reading past the title- you are fearless. But on the other hand, can someone tell me what...
Ask Not…!
Some horse owners have simple expectations of their horses. Standing in the pasture about covers it- and a couple of...
Wealth That Money Can't Buy.
Lots of us struggle to balance horses and money. There is an assumption that owning horses is a rich person's...
The Perfect Purse.
That is what I called my first truck- the perfect purse. It could carry all I needed for work and...
Who's Spookin' Who?
It was time to take my proud and extremely green Arabian gelding out of the arena for the first time....
The Barn Rat Release.
First, lets get our terminology straight. A barn rat is a child who might answer an ad with the headline...
Learning to Ride
“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.” C.S. Lewis While it is true that horses like a...
Women's Work, and Dads.
Lloyd Blake was a farmer and even now it isn’t an easy life to romanticize. I worked outside with him...
The Problem with Perfection
Lots of us riders are perfectionists. It isn’t a bad thing to want to get things right. We want...
A Tweet for my Barn.
I want to say this upfront- I do not tweet. I have to draw the line somewhere. I admit I...
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