Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Don Me Now My Gay Apparel, Equestrian Blogger Gift Exchange 2019

Blogging About Blogging Let’s Get Meta   First Order Of Business All hail The Printable Pony for organizing the blogger gift exchange. These things are always more of a hairball than they seem from the outside. How hard can it be to collect a few names, match them up, & list the resulting blog posts?Continue reading “Don Me Now My Gay Apparel, Equestrian Blogger Gift Exchange 2019”

Short But Frightening, Contest Entries

Writing About Writing   Looking Back Frightening First Line We could have avoided so much tragedy, if only the aliens had not landed on Halloween. “Create the first line of a frightening story … limit was 31 words.” My entry was 16 words. Frightening First Line Contest Winner & Runner’s Up Gotham Writers [Can YouContinue reading “Short But Frightening, Contest Entries”

Recent Changes, Milton’s Padding

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   After the success with Rodney’s padding [Recent], we decided to see if anything of that sort would help Milton. He’s always been girthy and hates to be touched. Perhaps he would like to be insulated from the slings and arrows of life. We messedContinue reading “Recent Changes, Milton’s Padding”

Recent Changes, When You Find Out You Are Not As Good As You Thought You Were

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   At some point earlier this year, I burbled on about how Rodney was a sensitive horse and how I was learning to ride him in balance and how I was understanding the concept of being on the outside rein. I likened the feeling toContinue reading “Recent Changes, When You Find Out You Are Not As Good As You Thought You Were”