Author Archives: Rebecca Berry

From the Neck Up

Three terms plucked from my dwindling list of topics. I’m running with the theme of, well, from the neck up. The Old Four-in-hand Necktie Knot When we hear the term...

George Strait is Pure Country

A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to Austin, Texas for the weekend so we could go to the Austin City Limits (ACL) music festival. We were excited...

Hippomaniac Hippophiles

I’m a hippomaniac and a hippophile. You are as well, and I know this because I’m writing about it, and you are reading about it. It means we are excessively...

Ratcatcher of Yore

Ratcatcher. What a great word. As always, this word said in the general public would conjure up a very different image than if the word was spoken at a horse...

The Pony Horse Paradox

I was watching the news the other day and they were talking about the poor air quality caused by wildfires. The news team decided to go to Hastings Racecourse to...

Horsepower of Famous Logos

After I arrived home from the UK, I checked around my house to make sure everything was still in running order. When things sit idle for too long they tend...

March and the Hurly at Burghley

It was a proper cross-country day at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI5*-L and there were major changes on the leaderboard but also no changes at all. That is...

I Can’t Even

Of all the Airbnbs in the UK, I had to book this one; a cute one-bedroom house with a clothesline. I knew I was in the county of Hampshire, but...

A Newmarket Dream

A million Christmases ago my mom gave me a Newmarket quarter sheet. It was my Santa present, which is to say the best present of the day. It was beautiful....

Horses, Of Course

I’ve always suspected my trip to the UK was possibly leaning more toward a parental pilgrimage than it was embracing my freedom as I explore part of this great world...

To All the Shetlands I’ve Ever Loved

Falling in love, I’m told, often happens unexpectedly. I’m here to report that I have unexpectedly fallen in love with the Shetland Islands. It’s hard to pinpoint what turned my...