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Receiving Comfort from Special Friends Long Gone Throughout my life I’ve mined my imagination when I need to escape stressful situations. I use this skill to transport myself to a happy place and time. Memory is my greatest tool as I close my eyes, breathe, and think of some places …
Horse Care Helps Me Go On I have the flu. I’m feeling sorry for myself, which I suppose is expected under the circumstances. But I’m especially snappy because it’s winter and I run a boarding barn and make my living giving riding lessons. I’ve canceled lessons for the week, which …
Treasured Tools of the Trade On my farm I rely on mechanical and electronic equipment every day to keep the place running. My tractor, arena drag, coffee pot, wheelbarrow and manure fork, and the computer I’m typing on will all eventually wear out and break. Honestly, though, I have little …
A Grim Diagnosis for a Beloved Horse In last month’s column I wrote about my 7-year-old gelding, Gus, and his struggle to stay sound. Slightly lame over the summer with an undiagnosed injury to his left hind, he then bowed a tendon in his right hind in October. I rested …
Horses Don’t Always Want What People Think They Want Not that long ago the norm for top-notch equine care was to stall horses at night and turn them out in paddocks or fields in the day. We spent a lot of time leading horses in and out, stall cleaning was …
Summer is the Season for Action “The secret to life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do!” Sculptor …
Let’s Stop Looking for Ourselves When We Look at Our Horse “We don’t see the world as it is, but rather as we are.“ Mary Pipher It’s spring, my favorite time of year! Horses are shedding, foals are being born, and horse people are planning the fun we’ll have with …
Join Us in Celebrating the Colorado Horse Community While my experiences in equine media have taken me to every major Western event, from the first reining at the United States Equestrian Team Festival in Gladstone, New Jersey, in 2000 to the first Run for a Million in Las Vegas in …
Top 5 Reasons to Take Your Horse to an Event The competition season is in full swing. It’s always a busy time for those of us immersed in the competitive and/or educational aspects of the horse world. I’m involved as an instructor, clinician, judge, and competitor. I enjoy traveling to …
Decades ago, before the advancement in veterinary care we now enjoy, horses over the age of 20 were considered very old and rarely ridden. They were “put out to pasture” and unfortunately often forgotten about. These days though, many horses in their 20s (and beyond) still live useful and productive …
