Tevis Progress: Mid Winter Review

December 17, 2025.Reading time 10 minutes.

Slowly putting in the work to getting to the Tevis starting line

Tarma: Five Years In

November 30, 2025.Reading time 12 minutes.

Five years with Tarma the spicy chocolate mare!

Endurance Future Part Two

November 1, 2025.Reading time 11 minutes.

Life got a bit lifey and delayed the second installment of musing about the future of the sport of endurance. We left off talking about the culture of endurance, and it affects the growth (or decline) of the sport. One of the thornier issues I didn’t touch on is the heated debate over what constitutes […]

Protests in 2025

October 19, 2025.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’m no real stranger to protests. I’ve been going to them off and on since middle school, when I found myself in the thick of one on the Multnomah County Courthouse steps, watching my lesbian parents hastily marry (before the law was changed to annul it). This was my first real brush with the ugliness […]

Response: How much weight can a horse carry?

October 9, 2025.Reading time 8 minutes.

Below is the response I wrote up and sent off to Chewy’s marketing team, based on an email article I received a few days ago titled “How much weight can a horse carry?” I use Chewy on the regular, Benny’s kibble is on auto-ship and I buy treats and toys for both Benny and Tarma […]

Endurance: Where are the ribbons?

September 29, 2025.Reading time 20 minutes.

Let’s turn our pens towards the annual signs of autumn: The ponies start getting their soft winter fuzzies on, the sun ditches us before 8pm, you have to return to keeping an extra layer in the truck, and…the AERC page starts to get rambunctious again. All ride season long, most folks are busy clearing trails, […]

America in lockstep

September 11, 2025.Reading time 6 minutes.

…is a nice pipe dream. Before I get any further into this, one absolute statement: No one should ever be shot for speaking their truth. No one should be shot while trying to learn at school. No one should be shot or the victim of violence, full stop. But that’s a pipe dream world even […]

August Round Up

September 5, 2025.Reading time 8 minutes.

Summer interrupted just kept on…interrupting. A few weeks ago I was hauling Tarma and Curly up to Timothy Lake, so Kade and I could do our annual trail ride and swim into the lake. Well….this happened instead: “Kade and I woke up, packed lunch, got morning horse chores done in good time, managed to get […]

What Is Right?

August 20, 2025.Reading time 8 minutes.

This post will be a bit of a conglomeration of background thoughts, things I ruminate over as I climb the hill to put Tarma back in her summer pasture, as I’m playing a random game on my phone as Tom drives us home from work, and when I’m trying not to think about all the […]

Summer Interrupted

July 27, 2025.Reading time 10 minutes.

I think I mentioned this a few posts back, but this summer isn’t looking anything at all like what I had pictured. I’ve fit in only a handful of actual “conditioning” rides, and we’ve only made it out to one endurance ride. It was a blast, but we did the trail ride, so no addition […]