One in the saddle, one on the ground
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 […]
Read MoreI’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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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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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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…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 […]
Read MoreThis post will be a bit of a conglomeration of background thoughts, things I ruminate over as I climb the hill to put Tarma back in her summer pasture, as I’m playing a random game on my phone as Tom drives us home from work, and when I’m trying not to think about all the […]
Read MoreEverything is moving too damn fast, and by the time I get my jumbled thoughts written down, edited, typed up, linked to other better sources and more coherent writings than mine, and finally posted…the event I had such strong thoughts about is way in the rearview, everyone has already moved on to the next Biggest […]
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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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I had a much different post drafted last week, before the Tevis 2024 ride got underway. It was a much more navel gazey post, mostly focused on my own goals and process. I happen to know at least one of the riders involved in the incidents I’ll be including below, so I’m going to attempt […]
Read MoreThis has been a monumentally hard week. I know it’s been even harder for so many folks who aren’t me, middle aged fully employed white lady in a small town. All week I’ve had my own struggles, quietly watching social media and struggling, struggling over what course to take. Speak up, or black out? Share […]
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On the loose 