prime time

Did you all catch Stacy Westfall on Ellen last Friday? I think this is an example of how powerful the associative nature of the internet can be, since Stacy put her new website up in January and by March she’s on a major show: Of course, I’m sure it doesn’t hurt that Portia de Rossi [...]

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when the world is your arena

I had an epiphany today. It was my second day of training for a new job, and we were role-playing and running mock situations. When I was presented with the information in a step-by-step manner and given a chance to practice things until I got them right, I excelled, and felt eager to learn more. [...]

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the power of positive

I subscribe to an email newsletter from The Horse that pops up in my inbox with almost annoying frequency. However, there’s always at least one or two articles of interest to me, on a good mix of topics ranging from health care to news to training. This week we have the ongoing Trexler abuse story, [...]

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road to the horse

I have mixed feelings about the Road to the Horse colt-starting competition. On the one hand, it’s supposedly designed to promote gentle starting techniques and to show that force isn’t necessary to be effective. It’s been very successful in giving large audiences a taste of NH techniques. On the other hand, that seems like a [...]

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the dilemma of ‘do’

The barn where I stable my horse is that rarity, a place where riders of different ages and disciplines exist in harmony. While there are only two Western saddles in the tack room (mine being one of them), there are numerous Quarter Horses, Thoroughbreds, Warmbloods, an aged pony, and even a mustang, and no one [...]

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