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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
This 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 […]
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 […]
I’m writing this up after a full day of work while Tom whips up hand made chicken alfredo, and fighting through the inevitable gut gurgling aftereffects of any good trip. I’m well and truly bitten by the Tevis bug, but before I dive into our summary I wanted to give a shoutout to the VIP […]
Everything 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 […]