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Gift Theory and Blogger Gift Exchange Follow Up

Blogging About Blogging Let’s Get Meta I have been traumatize by Christmas gifts in the past. I’m sure you know the ones. The gifts you get from a friend or relative or co-worker who means well but doesn’t know you well enough to have a clue. The footed china cake stand decorated withContinue reading “Gift Theory and Blogger Gift Exchange Follow Up”

City Letters

Celebrating Art The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper Kate Ascher, BuroHappold, Columbia (Penguin 2011) Those interested in such topics will be glad to note that Heights has a segment on sustainability. Cover from the web. While we are in this drawer of the card catalogue: Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures RomaContinue reading “City Letters”

Faces In The Crowd, A Fiction Exercise

Random Words Writing & Writing About Writing ProcedureIn the post Big City, The Errant Moon daydreams about passersby. Two tradesmen become supervillians. Policemen being polite to tourists are really scanning for stalkers. That woman? Well, you’ll have to click over to see what she is about to do. Update, blog rehomed, The Errant Moon: BigContinue reading “Faces In The Crowd, A Fiction Exercise”

Not Rising To The Challenge

Foto Friday Fail May As Well Event issued a challenge to bloggers, “Let’s see ONE horsey picture for each of the last ten years.” The 2010s Picture Challenge. Links to the responses have been assembled in their own post 2010 Picture Challenge – BlogHop Recap. Some of these blogs I have been following for longContinue reading “Not Rising To The Challenge”

Waving My Arms to Music

Fit To Ride Tomorrow, the adult dance classes resume at The Dance Foundation. I shall be there, standing in the back, looking gormless, wondering which way to go. Remember when I said, ‘I may never be better than the first time’ [Challenge]? HA. I should be so lucky. I expected my learning curveContinue reading “Waving My Arms to Music”

Adventures in Predicting the Future, The 2020 Show Season

Adventures in Saddle Seat Enjoy the ride. Predicting a show schedule is as useful as reading tea leaves. Who knows what is going to happen. To me. To the horse. To the expansion rate of the universe. Rodney is currently at bat. Maybe this will continue; maybe not. Maybe Milton will step up. MaybeContinue reading “Adventures in Predicting the Future, The 2020 Show Season”

Rodney’s Holiday Rides

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. tldr: Going well, Lots of trailering. Lots of walking. Rodney. Is. Exhausting. Because of course he is. Partly due to the enormous expectations I put on him from day one. Will this be the horse who takes me amazing places? Now I add,Continue reading “Rodney’s Holiday Rides”