Tevis Prep: February 2026 Check In

February 10, 2026.Reading time 9 minutes.

I didn’t have enough brain power after a work and volunteer drama filled week to come up with a catchy title. So a perfectly descriptive one will have to do! It wouldn’t be a rookie’s Tevis goal without some healthy doubts, so I’ll cover that first before the gritty details of where we are at […]

A swelling rage

January 24, 2026.Reading time 9 minutes.

“A white blank page/And a swelling rage, rage/You did not think/when you sent me to the brink, to the brink” I should be doing literally anything but huddled up with my laptop, reeling from what the latest doomscrolling has dumped upon us. The worst thing is not that ICE shot another protester, tragic and infuriating […]

Speed in the sunshine

January 17, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

January conditioning in the sunshine

Year of…a chestnut mare

January 1, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

Old year out with a sunshine ride, new year in with deliberation

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, […]