Tevis Progress: Mid Winter Review
Slowly putting in the work to getting to the Tevis starting line
Read MoreCategory: Daily Life
Normal, humdrum, ordinary life. Because it can be good, confusing, epic, wonderful, loving, and weird all at once.
Protests in 2025
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 […]
Read MoreEndurance: Where are the ribbons?
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, […]
Read MoreAugust Round Up
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 […]
Read MoreSummer Interrupted
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 […]
Read MoreHow many feet you meet
As with anything related to endurance, futzing with feet is a long-term process for most. For myself, I’m super-duper stubborn and man have we been on a journey without quite an end in sight with Tarma’s feet and hoof protection for endurance rides. To start with, let me list my priorities, so you know partly why I’m […]
Read MoreSignals
The main reason I haven’t written an actual blog post since April is thus: Aside from one camping trip to Cow Camp in Sisters, every horse related event I had planned or signed up for has been cancelled, either due to other people’s circumstances or horse injuries. I was so excited to take Kade to […]
Read MoreMarch Blues
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 […]
Read MoreTeenager Riding
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 […]
Read MoreGraveclothes
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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On the loose 