Caveat: Today’s subject is only tangentially about horses. For more non-equine subjects, see my other blog, Off Topic. Rodney’s Saga returns to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. I have a near-monthly gig interviewing folks about their jobs in the horse industry: good parts, bad parts, and how they got started [USDF Connection clips]. This led meContinue reading “Off Topic: My Origin Story”
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Living Digitally: Foto Friday Recommitment
The whole point of Foto Friday was technique over content [Texture]. I’m already all about content. I infinitely prefer a plot-driven book with a simple style to an ornate literary work that goes nowhere. Hence, plot – i.e. content – is not the problem with my photos. Style – i.e. technique – is. Even theContinue reading “Living Digitally: Foto Friday Recommitment”
Living Digitally: RibbonFest Invitation
Update: Offer rescinded. I have lost interest in wrangling other people’s photos. Feel free to blog hop. LMK, I will post a link here. Send me your ribbons! I mean pictures thereof. Please. Over at Tails From Provence: Le Stressage (waves hi!), there is a picture of a French ribbon and plaque. The fourth placeContinue reading “Living Digitally: RibbonFest Invitation”
Living Digitally: Watching From Afar
A common public fret is that social media is destroying the fabric of society. You’ve undoubtedly seen an image of two people – usually teens – seated together but each intent on a mobile device. The implication is that these hand-held hypnotizers are preventing the two individuals from engaging each other in enriching bonding activities.Continue reading “Living Digitally: Watching From Afar”
Living Digitally: Paid It Forward
My attempt to make waves on the Internet. Accepting the invitation: Pay It Forward January 2013 I have taken up the challenge issued by Halt, Salute and . . . to Creative Pay it Forward: The first five people to comment on this post will receive a gift from me sometime this calender year! …Continue reading “Living Digitally: Paid It Forward”
Living Digitally: Fundraising Viennese Style, a Guest Post
Has there been a better age for armchair travel? Today, a look at how the Spanish Riding School is keeping their white horses in kibble. Ellen Broadhurst, author of The Chronicles of the $700 Pony [Half Halt 2006] & The Further Adventures of the $700 Pony [Half Halt 2008], is living the ex-pat life andContinue reading “Living Digitally: Fundraising Viennese Style, a Guest Post”
Text Art: Happy Mother’s Day
Most Mother’s Day cards are pink and flowery. I would imagine that many parts of being a mother are not at all flowery. To my mother, to the memory of my grandmothers, & to the women and men who have nurtured me through my life’s journey. A shout out to my mother-in-law for doing suchContinue reading “Text Art: Happy Mother’s Day”
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