by LR | Mar 20, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing, Writing
The Internet Can Be a Very Mean Place We have all read terrible, hate-filled words on the Internet. We have also seen inspirational, uplifting messages. It is a tool that can be used for good or for a great deal of evil as evidenced by the recent live streaming of a...
by LR | Mar 16, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing, Saving Paddy
Love for Paddy at First Sight At only four years old, he walked into my life and captured my heart. He was a big, raw-boned and gawky “kid”–a cross between a Clydesdale and a Thoroughbred. He sported a wide blaze and four dazzling white stockings...
by LR | Mar 9, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing
Set Aside Money for Support or Set Up Arrangements for End of Life With Dignity A heartbreaking post about abandoned, forgotten horses from The Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue. Your horse, any horse, deserves better. Plan ahead now for your horse’s care in the...
by LR | Mar 5, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing, Uncategorized
This week we switch to Daylight Savings Time–usually a sign that winter is over. In a little more than a week, spring official begins. Unfortunately, it doesn’t feel like it! Here in the Mid Atlantic, we’re still experiencing sub-freezing temps, ice...
by LR | Feb 25, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing
How Can a Horse be Like a Novel? You may ask, How can a horse be like a novel? The answer is one word–relationship. Every good horseman knows the relationship you develop with your horse is critical to your success as a rider. Every good writer knows that the...
by LR | Feb 17, 2019 | Horses Hope Healing
Becoming a Barn Rat Just after New Years, I became a barn rat. If you don’t know what that it, it is usually a term applied to kids who hang around the stables doing any kind of work in order to get free rides, lessons, or training. It is most definitely a young...
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...
