Continuing to repost the entries from my previous monthly blogs Back To Eventing and Back To Riding. “It’s simple. It’s just not easy.” James C. Wofford, Training the Three-Day Event Horse and Rider [Doubleday 1995] You gotta respect an instructor who can start a sentence with, “When I was teaching [Olympic Silver Medalist] Kim Severson……”Continue reading “BTR 5 of 7, November 2011: Weekend with Wofford”
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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch. Or Not
It’s been two months since I wrote about Rodney, Milton, and the happenings at home [Summer Suffering]. Within that time period, I have posted on four saddleseat shows, many lessons, and endless saddle seat theory. What’s up with that? IF we ignore the screamy voices in my head and IF we ignore that fact theContinue reading “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch. Or Not”
Do I Dare?
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Referral Saturday: Snark-o-licious
Did you miss the Pan Am Games? Attend and want to remember? Now you can get the best bits in one handy format at Ten Things About the Toronto Pan Am Games on Writing From the Right Side of the Stall. Blog author Karen Briggs is a brilliant writer & hysterically snarky, “How a stylized porcupineContinue reading “Referral Saturday: Snark-o-licious”
Hi There, August 11, 2015
Surely I can arrange my life to say something each day, even if it’s ‘Hi There’. Where Do We Go From Here? Feeling very First World Problems lately. Mired in ennui. OTOH, am food secure, healthy, and as physically safe as one can get in a fallen world. Be motivated, dammit. Trolling Facebook out ofContinue reading “Hi There, August 11, 2015”
BTR 4 of 7, October 2011: Aftermath of an Explosion
Continuing to repost the entries from my previous monthly blogs Back To Eventing and Back To Riding. I wish I could say rereading this flash from the past led to deep insight. Alas, no. Mostly I recall the deep despair and am stunned to ponder that it has been almost four years since. OTOH, RodneyContinue reading “BTR 4 of 7, October 2011: Aftermath of an Explosion”
Correction. Rebuttal. Agreement.
Yesterday, two readers took issue when I said that transitions didn’t matter [The Ups and Downs]. Allow me to amend the statement. The way *I* rode jumps, transitions didn’t matter. This is partly due to Previous Horse. He was athletic & balanced to a freakish degree. (If he’d had heart, cooperation, or a competitive spirit, weContinue reading “Correction. Rebuttal. Agreement.”
Virtual Brush Box 