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.
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...
Photo Challenge: H2O
A thread flows affirming life with a humble reminder we’re only nests made of frail twigs, stray hairs, a cooled...
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...
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...
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...
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