Recently, my travels took me down a suburban country road that brought back an unexpected flood of memories—and mixed feelings. In my other life, I’m a specialty construction trade contractor...
When I was a young girl, my mom and I had a discussion about body types. At the time, I, like most girls my age, envied celebrities like Cameron Diaz,...
In early 2018, Michelle Durpetti faced a tough decision. Her amateur-owner hunter Moody Blues had made an incredible recovery from cervical vertebral malformation, or “Wobbler’s Syndrome,” more than six years...
So many young people grow up with horses and want to make a career in the sport. The image of travelling to horse shows and competing with your peers or...
I wasn’t always a horse show husband. Just a few years ago, I was a single guy, working as an editorial and wedding photographer, oblivious to the existence of the...
The pony and I are having a hard time. She’s been pulling me in a cart for seven years now. Out of nowhere she’s gotten anxious and persnickety, not wanting...
This picture brings up so many memories of my first years as young professional. When I first started showing Pongo in the Pre Greens, people laughed. I did all of...
Have you ever discovered a unique coffee shop, or perhaps a delicious hole-in-the-wall ramen place, and you want that place to be really successful and thrive, but a little piece...
Each morning, the stable hands halter the horses individually and lead them quietly from their stalls through the sunlit barn aisle. Lead ropes are un-clicked from halters at the paddock...
The other day I woke up at dawn with mixed feelings of exhilaration and concern. I was going to be riding a new horse with a new-ish trainer. To provide...
We've all had it drilled into us: "Don't stand behind that horse, don't walk too close to that horse, don't pass so near to that horse, you'll get kicked!" We...
I remember the buck that threw me off in the middle of that hunt field—swift and clean. My friend came cantering up behind me, having missed the entire event. But...
Sometimes, a horse is just special. It's not because they did anything particularly notable as a show horse, or because they had champion bloodlines, or became notable breeding stock. They're...
Most people don’t get the opportunity to bring home the horse they took riding lessons on. But that’s exactly what happened the summer between my fourth and fifth grade year....
Aly Raisman is an Olympic gold medalist, and was captain of the gold medal winning US Olympic Gymnastics Teams in 2012 and 2016. Anyone familiar with her story has likely...
Choreographer and equestrian Paula Josa-Jones has written an intelligently observed, beautifully rendered collection of experiences and inspirations detailing her artist’s journey of learning to be more fully present in the...
Living in a town where being horsey is not the norm, I have often been challenged with this question, by others and even myself. It's hasn't been the easiest path,...
On Sunday, season three of Masterpiece’s Swashbuckling series, Poldark, thunders back onto tiny screens across the United States. This 18th-century drama stars Aiden Turner as Ross Poldark, a roguishly handsome,...
