There is only one thing we can control, our mind. Years ago, I read a book titled How We Choose To Be Happy. The book helped me reframe my opinion of my life and its past events. It helped me think "better" and check the negative chatter in my mind. I now see events as essential to making me who I am, and I don't consider the unfortunate, traumatic events in my life as "bad." I view them as necessary. I needed to go through those things, learn the lessons, grow, be healthier,

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 got serious about swimming around twelve. She was ten when I bought Rudy. The first time she met him, she was on crutches. She has Perthes disease, a hip disorder in young children that usually occurs between four and ten. She had undergone surgery on the femoral head of her hip and could not bear weight for two years. Despite this restrictio