Author: WeAreOnTheLoose

After years of borrowing horses, working to ride and catch riding, I finally have my own horse, a spicy chocolate mare...but also a demanding day job (who doesn't?), a nerdy husband, a soccer loving kid who needs to be parented (by me, duh), and the ultimate trail buddy, a chocolate Labradork!

A swelling rage

.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 […]

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Endurance Future Part Two

.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 […]

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Protests in 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 […]

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Response: How much weight can a horse carry?

.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 […]

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Endurance: Where are the ribbons?

.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, […]

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America in lockstep

.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 […]

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