by LR | Jan 11, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing
How a rescued pony and a determined trainer are changing the way we view size in competitions. Professional dressage trainer Ashley Kennedy, with her long auburn hair tucked under a ball cap, lovingly drapes an arm over the back of her talented equine partner—a...
by LR | Dec 22, 2018 | Being Enough
Part One of a series on Imposter Syndrome and how to feel that you’re enough. “The Magi didn’t arrive on Christmas. You have to move them.” My nine-year-old fingers clutched a figure garbed as a king and slid him and his cohort to the farthest end of the piano top. My...
by LR | Jul 6, 2018 | Horses Hope Healing
Acts of Hatred, Hate Crimes, and Degradation of Others In light of a recent hate crime committed at the local high school wherein four youth were charged with painting racist graffiti on school property, I started giving a lot more thought to the nature of hate and...
by LR | Jun 13, 2018 | Horses Hope Healing
My run times were slower. I wanted to quit. I found excuses not to run, not to try. Why try if I can’t be good at it. (See post on toxic perfectionist tendencies ). Then one day while walking in the park I ran across a woman walking two old Labs. She said they...
by LR | May 15, 2018 | Horses Hope Healing
Is Social Media to Blame? Social media has been vilified as causing negative behavior from increased violence, suicides, and social isolation. Of course in and of itself, social media is not evil, although sometimes we tend to portray it in that light. It is, however,...
by LR | May 8, 2018 | Horses Hope Healing
When we talk about message, what springs to mind? Indulging oneself at an exclusive spa, receiving special wraps and treatments from a burly masseuse? Put away those ideas that body work such as message therapy, chiropractic adjustments, or acupuncture are merely for...
by LR | May 1, 2018 | Horses Hope Healing
There’s an old horseman’s saying, “No hoof, no horse.” This means if you don’t take care of your horse’s feet, he won’t be able to perform no matter how talented he may be. The same goes for humans, but how often do we really...
by LR | Mar 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
I just finished reading Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, written by Karen Abbott, and feel as if it should be required reading for all history students. The book covers the life of four women–two Confederate and two Union Army...
by LR | Nov 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
The name Harriet Tubman brings to mind an American legend—a woman who risked death in pursuit of freedom and continued to do so in order to bring others to freedom. She has become a mythic, larger-than-life character on the stage of history, which makes me wonder all...
by LR | Aug 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
While kneeling in the sand and weeding by hand my riding arena (yes, I do this because I am obsessive compulsive about weeds) it occurred to me that the task was a lot like writing a novel. How so? I looked at the overgrowth of weeds invading my ring and resolved to...
