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    • Story Snippets: Flora

      I barely mentioned Flora, the oldest mare at the rescue, in my memoir. Though I didn’t work with her often, Flora was a wonderful dark bay with a generally pleasant personality, aside from a few quirks. She had a terrible fear of clippers, whips, and fly masks, and grumpyness about picking her feet up. She…

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    • Ponderings

      Things have been really chaotic on all fronts this week, so this blog post may be a bit scattered. Things at work made me realize over again that not everyone is going to like me. Sometimes it’s not for any good reason. Just as I can clash with someone else’s personality, so they can clash…

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    • Old Paths

      Yesterday I was caught off guard by something I thought I had already worked through. It wasn’t a big thing, I just got unusually angry about a situation that shouldn’t have been a big deal. I had to go back and reevaluate why I was so stressed about it. The anger and fear had snuck…

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    • Celebrating 100 Books!

      Well, we made it, and only a few days into the month of May! Standing in a Field With Horses has reached a hundred sales! That’s a hundred more people who have read a story about learning relate to horses without dominance. A hundred more joining a beginner in tentatively feeling out some way to…

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    • Bits and Pieces

      I read a book the other day that was recommended to me by a horse group that I follow. It wasn’t something I would have picked up without a recommendation, but I was curious. The book had some things in it I didn’t agree with, but I also found things I hadn’t thought of in…

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    • “He’s Disrespecting You”

      I would like to return these phrases, I don’t want them anymore: Get after himShow her who’s bossDon’t let her get away with itHe’s testing youGive him a little ‘encouragement’Give her a tap/kickBe the leaderDon’t let him dominate youAsk, tell, demandMake her workHe’s trying to pull one over on youShe’s faking it to get out…

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    • Check In, Breathe In, Breathe Out

      I teach a course locally on how to recognize the very beginnings of a dangerous situation developing with a horse. Part of it is being aware of your own body, it’s relation to the horse’s body, and recognizing how your emotions and the horse’s are interacting. I had to take my own advice the other…

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    • It’s Here! Paperback Release

      The paperback version of Standing in a Field With Horses is here! Click Here for Amazon book! When I was a little girl my aunt and uncle got me a ceramic dragon statue that I was so enamored with, I carried it from room to room with me for a couple of days, just to…

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    • Paperback Progress

      Hello readers! There has been much progress on the paperback book front. I got my proof copy of Standing in a Field With Horses in, then my laptop started glitching so badly that I had to continue my formatting updates on a computer at the public library. Thank goodness for libraries! I have the second…

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    • A Task Without an Outcome

      There’s a pony at the barn where I currently volunteer who is afraid of putting her face in a halter. She had been rescued from an abusive situation and is taking a while to warm up to the idea of voluntarily having something approaching her face. To catch her in the field, usually someone has…

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