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Having spent much of the last ten years riding the same horse that I knew back-to-front, this whole new horse thing is throwing me for a...


Java Goes to School
Winter is pretty damn long when you've got a greenie you're dying to ride but you're waiting to send him away to a pro. Is that a...


Java's First Robin Clinic
Every fall for as long as I've known her, my friend H hosts a clinic with Robin Groves at her farm. I've posted about it before, but I...


Settling In
Managing a horse is an experience I was hella unprepared for on a deep emotional level. Sure, I've been riding and leasing for...


The First Horse I Saw
They say never buy the first horse you see. Well, I fucked that up. On a mid-November weekend, mom, A., and I piled into the car to go...


Fishing for Unicorns
In order to understand what drove me to the madness of buying a horse two months into my first big-girl job, it's important to know three...


Time Goes By
Holy bananas a lot has happened. Since my last post, an unreasonable amount of shit has gone down. Obviously, blog updates were not...