Third Generation Suffragist Rides for Women’s Equality
A long rider, according to the Long Rider’s Guild, is someone who has ridden more than 1,000 continuous miles on a single equestrian journey. Bernice Ende has ridden over 30,000 miles...
A long rider, according to the Long Rider’s Guild, is someone who has ridden more than 1,000 continuous miles on a single equestrian journey. Bernice Ende has ridden over 30,000 miles...
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...
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...
The driver of a truck and horse trailer who plowed through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday night is under investigation by the Oklahoma...
Every horse owner I know is experiencing some level of anxiety around how COVID-19 is or might affect them as an equestrian. This is totally normal, and if you’re having...
COVID-19 restrictions have led organizers to cancel equestrian competitions and other events nationwide—but at what cost? We caught up with Derek Braun, founder and president of the Split Rock Jumping...
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...
In 2005, I took a trip that changed my outlook on everything for the rest of my life. It was set up an as "innocent" semester abroad called Semester At...
New Year's resolutions and plans, the perfect way to reflect on the past year and look forward to the future. But how can we turn wishes and goals into plans...
In 2014, Buzzfeed published a quiz titled “How Privileged Are You?” In the five years since it came out, I often think about that quiz and the strange ways it...
Four years ago I was invited to present the daily devotional which I called “Horse Sense for Politicians” drawn from experience working with my Shetland pony that I’ve trained to...