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Photo Challenge & Poem: Temporary

He has walked on from this place into memory, this creature of heart and spirit. He can't remember a time...
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Circles: A Soft Bend

I'd led a sheltered life. I was thirty years old before I visited my first Saddlebred barn. I was just...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Peek

  Did he want to be invisible? As still as wood, his head holds solitude in the corner. This bay...
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The Middle Path: Why Gaits Matter

Let's say you like to jump and so does your Arabian. Let's say you do endurance on an Appaloosa. Let’s...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Rounded

  The whorl beneath a forelock, the velvet comma nostrils, the curve of a neck, the serpentine of a spine,...
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Severe Weather Warning

It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Glow

The sun hurries now, eager to be gone. A chill breeze scatters the last embers of fall, crisp leaves layer...
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Riding the Middle: My Horse is Lazy.

My horse is lazy. He won't go forward. He doesn't listen to my legs no matter what. Do I need...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Scale

The one you call cute, in a high-pitched squeal, hears no compliment. Is it your goal to demean me? Because...
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Too Much Love: Is it Partnership?

Last week I answered a reader question about Making War on Horses and it got a predictably positive reception. It's...
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