My Collection of Stories
When I was a junior in high school, I started a journal. While it started out as a private place to lodge my secrets and silly thoughts, it later evolved into something else. That journal went with me...
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The Collection – An Introduction (Of Sorts)
When I was younger, one of my favorite past times after a hard day of horse work was to come home and read. My parents and grandparents had been good people who imparted to me a love of words at an...
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The Collection – The Whisperer
Frank stood on the height of the cliff, silently watching the moving steer below. The cold knife edge of winter was gone, and spring had again returned to the highlands. The bulls moved their heads...
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The Collection – A Moment
The pulsating roar of the alarm clock pulled me out of my wonderful sleep. It was a deep, blissful kind and not the type that either comes (or should be given up) easily. The day was cool and still in...
View ArticleWinter Cleaning, Loose Ends and a New Year
Every January, following the New Year, I have a bit of a ritual. I like to spend a few days getting things cleaned and organized. My little ritual includes both a mental, digital in addition to a...
View ArticleMud with character
I love the winter and I love the spring. What I do not love, however, is the period between the two. It is more than somewhat ironic that we are having a spate of warmer than normal temperatures out...
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Ray Hunt
We all have our Ray Hunt memories and stories. Mine all go something like this, “I once rode with Ray Hunt, and it changed my life.” Yours might be similar. In fact, many Ray Hunt stories start in...
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Photos of Horses
It’s a beautiful day outside. We've been very lucky to have five or six such beautiful days in a row. They are the type of beautiful day that generally encourages irresponsibility and miscellaneous...
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So You Want to Learn to Ride
It seems that every introduction to horses or horsemanship must begin with some mystically beautiful scene: wild mustangs charging across the open plains, jaw-dropping feats of disciplined...
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“Just let him kind of be there to explore a little…”
Note: Earlier this afternoon, I came across a note on a horsemanship list that inspired a bit of writing. A very nice person was quoting a part of True Unity by Tom Dorrance. This gave me the...
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Barn Architecture
There is a reason why the tuxedo hasn’t changed in more than a century. Put simply, there is no need for it to. Unlike other things, it doesn’t need to evolve or mold itself to the fashions of the...
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Trials and Travails of a Tack Snob
Anyone who knows me well can tell you that I am self-centered, arrogant and more than slightly conceited. In addition, I have exquisitely “discerning” tastes, pretenses to education, and...
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The Head Balances the Feet
It is possible to draw lessons on horsemanship from a tremendously diverse range of sources. For me, one of the most important has it’s roots in an unlikely place, a brief exchange between the...
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The Advice that No One Likes to Give: Sell Your Horse
Anyone who has been deemed “good with horses” probably gets asked one particular question at some point: “What do you think that I should do to solve this problem that I and my horse are having?”...
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On the Surface Versus Working Deep
Amongst horse people, one of the fastest ways to raise hackles or hostilities is to call someone a “surface worker.” It’s just one of those things that you don’t do in polite company. After all, one...
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