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Admitting You’re Wrong.

Do you remember the first time you wanted to be right? It might predate memory or even language. Being good...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

The mingling of moist breath, the warm embrace of a curve, the uncomplicated wholeness that we covet. And the guilt...
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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...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

Not politics, religion; not money or guns. Answer deep and pure, in our heart, soul; our Earth and Sun. ~~~Read...
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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....
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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...
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Women as Predators.

Do you identify as a predator? I was at a horse show a few years back, helping a client. It...
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Shrews for Shakespeare

I was an above average student, as long as I could avoid any science class involving frogs. Then in junior...
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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...
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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...
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