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Photo by Aaron J. Hill As the chair lift whisked me up the mountain, I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I looked down, and...

The vet's words were a gut punch. The radiograph revealed a grim prognosis. Her right fetlock joint was severely damaged, almost...

Social media highlighted the plight of America's "wild," or feral, horses for me. They are disappearing at an alarming rate, and humans...

I trotted Rudy independently for the first time in fifteen months. Most people in the horse world would not consider this noteworthy or...

The last decade has been the best of my life. It's been a transformative journey. A pivotal moment occurred when I said "Yes" to a new...

My dear friend, Steph, had passed away several years earlier. I often found myself missing the close connection we shared, but on this...

This blog is not horse-related. It is life-related. It seems appropriate to release it at the beginning of a new year.  And just like...

In June 2022, my boyfriend and I rented a vacation house with a tennis court. One afternoon, he asked me if I wanted to go out and hit...

Yin and Yang are two complementary principles of Chinese philosophy: Yin is negative, dark, and feminine, and Yang is positive, bright,...

For roughly a year, I adopted what I believed was a clever way of describing the status of my riding relationship with Rudy. When someone...

Life happens, diverting our attention for moments, days, weeks, and sometimes years. I started writing this piece months ago and am only...

Thank you for spending the precious commodity of time reading my blogs. This one is longer than the others, but I hope you stick with it...

I'm a little late writing this blog. Taxes took precedence. Ugh. I got the idea to write this blog around Valentine's Day when I mused on...

Hello old friend, previously when you came knocking, I shut the door in your face. I now acknowledge your presence and tell you it's okay...

Rudy has helped me beat to my own drum. Over the six years I've owned him and four barns we've been at, there have been numerous...

My niece was born a horse-crazy kid like me. She took her first riding lesson at three years old and continued taking classes until she...

When I think back seven years, my life as it is now is unimaginable. I would never have thought I'd be spending hours at the barn with my...

The first two blogs on fear came effortlessly, but this one did not, hence the delay in writing it. I've been thinking about my...

It's hard when you look in the mirror and recognize the truth. You see the person you are versus the person you think you are. I'm sure...

I believe that no one wants to be a fearful person. I also think that people are often blind to many of their fears and don't realize the...