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The Best Reasons to Stop Riding

  I think I've heard all the clichés about change that I can stand. At a certain age, we don't...
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Photo Challenge: Local

As vast as mountains silhouetted and layered angled across the horizon. As close as whispers of breath, nostril to flank,...
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Riding the Inside of Your Horse

When I was just a dressage-princess-wannabe, before I became a full-blown Dressage Queen, I thought dressage riders all wore a kind...
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Photo Challenge: H2O

A thread flows affirming life with a humble reminder we’re only nests made of frail twigs, stray hairs, a cooled...
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A Serenity Prayer For Both of You

The seasons are changing, and the air feels cooler. That's what you notice, but your horse seems just a bit...
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The Devil Is In the Details

  How to create a homemade project that looks professional and inviting and even artistic--that's the dilemma. I would love...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ride Shorter, Progress Farther.

If I were to write a training book entitled Less is More, it would be hundreds of pages long. The...
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