Category: Daily Life

  • With our endurance season ending a bit earlier than expected, my focus is shifting towards winter work. I was able to fit in a quick…

  • Now that Tarma and I have 250 official endurance miles together (plus 100 LD miles), plus all the countless training miles behind those, it’s time…

  • I do enjoy being an active AERC member for many reasons, chief among them the subscription to Endurance News. There was a recent interview with…

  • I realized in the shower yesterday I’ve never really written in depth about Tarma’s quirks, her likes and dislikes, what makes her tick and what…

  • I’m going to write my own version of the vents from last summer’s Santiam Cascade ride. I was a volunteer and eyewitness for both events…

  • I track Tarma’s progress so carefully, but I’ve yet again fallen into the classic mistake of ignoring the rider. In my case, I’ve let winter…

  • January was a bit of a wild month here, trapped in our homes for almost a week due to an ice storm. These level of…

  • As the ice outside my front door is almost an inch thick and I haven’t seen my horse in five damn days, why not wade…

  • When trying to distill my hopes, dreams, and work ahead for a year (though no hard and fast goals this year), the thesaurus is my…

  • To say that 2023 was a banner year for me seems wrong somehow, in the face of…*gestures at everything else*. Though to look back and…