Five Silver Linings of My Quarantine Life
Life is weird right now. Which I know is probably the understatement of the century. But despite all the current weirdness (or maybe because of it), I've discovered there’s a...
Life is weird right now. Which I know is probably the understatement of the century. But despite all the current weirdness (or maybe because of it), I've discovered there’s a...
I’m sure we’ve all seen Hamilton or at least heard the soundtrack enough times now to feel like we know a whole lot about Revolutionary War-era history. I love that...
I love Pride Month. Ever since my very first Pride event many years ago (in NYC, because go big or go home, right?) I have lived to witness the special...
It isn’t overt. They don’t hear slurs and they aren’t excluded from barns or shows. But Abriana Johnson and Caitlin Gooch both say they have felt the sting of racism...
I recently reposted an article written by a well known American Olympic equestrian on the subject of the lack of diversity in the English riding world. I posted it to...
I have found it encouraging to see equestrian media getting involved in the #BlackLivesMatter conversation—for a community that is disproportionately white, sometimes we don’t seem to want to engage in...
In light of the Black Lives Matter police brutality protests sweeping every state in the nation, institutions in the horse world from publications to membership organizations are talking about how...
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the death of George Floyd and subsequent police brutality protests, what we see on the news beats us down in more ways than one. This...
The day the author Harper Lee died my grandmother and I talked about race. We were on the phone, she in her house in Colorado, me in my apartment in...
When I started working as a polo groom a few months ago, I was excited about the opportunity to learn a bit about a new horse sport. In my 14...
I am isolating at a friend’s farm for a few days, and storms rolled in over her back pasture for the past two nights. The night before last, the thunder...
Right now, somewhere in North America, there is a girl sitting at home caught between awkward adolescence and the evening bell. She wears her paddock boots to the park, and...
Early mornings find me at Windswept Farm in Williston, VT where I board my Shetland pony, along with 24 horses. Social distancing requires tight scheduling so that only two or...
One writes a blog at the risk of sounding preachy. In my blog, I try to share my opinions, my experience, as well as links to scientific research. I realize...
Robert Redford’s character in The Horse Whisperer. Teenage Amy Fleming from the popular series Heartland. Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. Horse trainers are highly romanticized in popular entertainment. The reality,...
I’ve been a proud member of the US Pony Club since I was a wee kid riding a naughty pony named Pickles. My devotion to this organization has seen me...
I have a confession. As the US enacted social distancing and lockdown policies because of the rapid spread of the Coronavirus, most equestrians bemoaned the loss of the spring show...
With all the doom and gloom around the world these days, it’s a little too easy to get weighed down by the prospect of a lengthy quarantine. And when you’re...
Every December, I sign up for the best PPO (preferred provider organization) insurance plan I can afford because if I get chucked off a horse and need to go to...
There’s a certain malaise that has come over me lately. It manifests itself as a feeling that I no longer have control over my welfare and that of my loved...