One in the saddle, one on the ground
As I wrote in my editor’s letter for the PNER newsletter, late February through late March (until my birthday) is the toughest time of year for me, emotionally and mentally. We’re so close to the end of winter and signs of spring are starting to pop up, but work gets really busy and the spastic […]
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Welp, I declared my Tevis goal (or at least, Tevis curious goal) and am already facing an immediate pivot…but I’m not super sad about it. The road to Tevis is long, and Tarma’s only 10 (ish) this year, so a few more years to prepare (hopefully) won’t hurt. What has derailed me is delightful! One […]
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Thank you to everyone who approached me at the PNER convention and appreciated my writing. I wish this was a happy post focused on the amazing time Kade and I had there. Alas, a steady diet of doom scrolling while fully sick wasn’t helpful at all. It did help clarify some things for me. As […]
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One of the (many) reasons I never pursued anything that required me to write for pay is when I’ve got something going on, I can’t write about anything but that thing. The words will only flow or come together if I’m writing about whatever that thing is. It’s a specific form of writer’s block: I […]
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Wake up and make coffee, scroll Facebook while the household wakes around you and flinch at every other story, send some positive comments to friends to try to stem the tide of shit we’ve been buried in all week. Put on all the layers, hitch up the trailer and don’t think of all the Federal […]
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Personally, 2025 is starting of pretty dang ok, minus the immediate and biggest bummer being my friend and amazing riding partner breaking her arm and needed both a pin and a plate to set them. Ugh. She’s doing okay, but understandably not the most fun. Kade has been able to step up and keep Cody […]
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To sum up how this week has been (and continues to be), there’s a powerful scene from a book I keep referencing. It’s from “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, by Max Brooks, at it’s face a zombie novel but much deeper once you get sucked into it. I haven’t read […]
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With one final day left between myself and returning to a desk bound day job, I find myself asking what else I need to accomplish to be able to focus on work with a lighter heart. I managed to get quite a bit done over the holiday haze, yet not quite enough. Do I spend […]
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Tis the soggiest time of year, when I have ample time to ride…and the winds are gusting and the sky is dumping and the heated blankets sing a siren’s song. I’m reading plenty of books, selling off spare tack, and pondering the upcoming year. Several of my friends like to choose words for the year, […]
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On the loose 