Category Archives: Life

I'd like to sincerely wish a Happy Mother's Day to all of the horse show moms who tirelessly support their young riders in the often expensive, sometimes frustrating, always passionate...

A year ago today, I loaded the love of my life onto a trailer bound for his new home. He was off to the hunter world where he would help...

New life is revealing itself between melted snow and budding green. The sun is ever warmer. Snow tires changed. Passover and Easter celebrated. Spring should be here, right? Well, not...

I was never emotionally attached to photographs or found the need pull them up and relive the past. I thought I had all I needed right in front of me...

I remember being 16 years old and feeling the tears streaming down my face. I remember walking off the cross country course with my head hanging down and my pelvis...

Rider and writer Melinda Folse is just like most of us: juggling work, family, and horses is standard procedure, and with all that she’s trying to balance in her life,...

I stand on the side of the ring watching my daughter learn to post. She is six. About the same age I was when I started to ride and began...

A month ago I wrote about my struggle setting goals, and how for the first time in a long time I was forcing myself to. I was riding the peak of...

When I started my blog in March of 2016, it was nearly a year that the ending began. But to tell the story from the end would not be fair or...

“How much will it cost if you do the whole thing?” “About $150. I’m just doing this to pay my way through grad school.” “Uh-huh. Sure. We’ll see you back...

In most aspects of life I am an extremely goal oriented person. I am as competitive as they come, constantly striving to better myself. I want to be the best...

One of my students came up to me a few weeks ago and started listing her goals for the season. Being a goal oriented person myself, I was intrigued. Claire...

We live in politically polarizing times. The constant bombardment of breaking news stories, tragedies, and a changing global social and financial landscape means there is no shortage of stress in our daily...

My husband is not my "horse show husband." He’s my regular husband. He is supportive. He kindly ignores the show fees and board checks coming out of the bank account....

I woke up at 6am this morning and refused to leave my bed. It was a bitter 8 degrees outside in Lexington so instead I reached for my phone and...

You spend every waking hour at the barn, and every weekend hauling to horse shows, trail rides and tack swaps. Your life is great, but there is this quietly nagging...

As a general rule, I’ve never bothered with New Year's resolutions. It’s easy (at least for me) to fall off the fitness bandwagon, or to forget to not eat that...

It snowed this past weekend in Wisconsin—our first real snowfall of the year. No one should have been surprised we find ourselves in a winter wonderland, albeit a bit earlier...

Were you head-over-heels obsessed with horses as a child? Did you spend entire weekends at the barn, and maybe even sleep there a time or two? Was your closet brimming...

I think my pony may be magic. I first realized her powers When she made one of my worst days, One of my best. Or that time she made me...