D & ME

I started writing about my experience with Dorian, because the journey we’ve taken together is so different from how many of the trainers...

The barn finally re-opened after close to two month's closure due to Covid 19. We're each allowed out to see our horses for two hours a d...

None of us have ever been in the situation we're now facing with the Covid 19 virus. If you have your horses at home, you have your built...

Who hasn't experienced the urge to run away? Or maybe the issue is "running in circles." Recently I listened to an interview with Father ...

My friend Jim Lindsey is a wonderful poet and photographer who lives in a wild and windy Nova Scotian coastal town. I've known him for ma...

Lately everywhere I look there seems one challenge after another--the world appears fraught with chaos and colliding interests, not many ...

You'd think horses would turn their backs to the wind. It's interesting, because that idea is based on our human experience--who among us...

"He is pure air and fire." Shakespeare, Henry V. Sometimes you have to let go of all that presses in on you, burdensome and heavy, and tu...

Morgan and her horse Captain were standing in the barn aisle as he got clipped and ready for training and showing. Soon Anne came by--her...

Things didn't look good. Sunday the temperature had been in the upper 60s, then on Monday the bottom dropped out, and when I got to the b...

Some of you may remember the story I told of John, pictured on the right, and Dorian last summer. They were both stalled in the same barn...

There was an interesting study in Sussex, England, in 2018 which found that horses not only identify but remember facial expressions and ...

A very successful east coast business coach advocates bringing our "whole selves to work," and has a lot of ideas about how to do that. H...

Dorian isn't a big talker. He doesn't nicker or whinny normally. He doesn't call to his pasture mates, except on occasion. And he never c...

A while ago, my friend Anita was working with Dorian. She turned to me and with that knowing look said "Horses are so much like their own...

Dorian and I went on a slow ride under a big, blue sky and temps. in the 80s . . . after the winter and spring we'd had, we relished the w...

Have you ever lost nearly everything? Been at the moment quite near financial ruin? Had your health compromised in a way that made itself...

I worked with a lot of different horses at the rescue, mainly trying to understand what each one really wanted to do in his next career. ...

It was a hot day, pretty muggy, too. So Dorian and I headed to the indoor arena where there was shade, and a very slight breeze. I gave D...

Dorian started doing this strange thing under saddle on the trail. And we'd ridden these trails probably hundreds of times. If I tried to...