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.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

What is it about a sunset?   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share...
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Carrots Aren't Enough.

We've had a lot of company at the farm lately. Sometimes I take them into the family pen. The Grandfather...
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Donkey Skills for the Recovering Introvert

They say you always remember your first. Back then you were worthless for anything but daydreaming. Tossing in damp sheets...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Harmony

Harmony: Spring training has begun for our elite and highly competitive Infinity Farm Synchronized Napping Team. New coach this year,...
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A Better Name for Chronic Lameness

It was the first day that the notion of chronic lameness got personal. My Grandfather Horse was young but he'd...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind

  State of mind: Here's the last snow photo, it's leap day, and we're calling it lucky. The light is...
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What's the True Value of Riding?

There's a meme that travels around Facebook that states, "Most people don't need a $35,000 horse. They need a $1,000...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons

There's nothing fresh about this winter season but that doesn't mean there isn't something hot, opinionated, and not all that...
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Energy Without Emotion.

Some of us originally learned to ride by watching Westerns. Cowboys held both reins in one hand and jerked the...
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Relaxed & Forward: My Secret Wish

I'll say it again. The hardest part of this writing and publishing process for me is always the description of...
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