THIS IS NOT AN ACRONYM LIKE RICE* I know that I am fully back, because a week ago this past Saturday, I woke up and the sky looked pretty low, but I didn't care. Not as low as it gets, I am guessing, in Scandanavia or Alaska, but the sky here can seem like it …
Keeping an Open Heart
I was talking to a pal the other day, about a bunch of things that are going on for me at the moment, and in conclusion I said, 'Well, I'm keeping an open heart.' The thing is, I know I was going to say that I was keeping an open mind, and that... I didn't. …
Today is Friday
... but I spent most of the afternoon yesterday gearing up for Saturday. I actually had to say to myself, before bed Thursday night, 'Tomorrow is Friday, tomorrow is Friday.' Part of this is concern about the over-extended whatever in my right knee. This is so annoying! The aging process, in action! It feels somewhat …
What’s That Smell?
I am inured to my own stink, so when I noticed that something particularly pungent was wafting in and out of my notice, on the way home after Saturday's lesson... I naturally assumed, okay, that yes: I reek. This was little something extra. What happened was: It was really cold yesterday. Cold enough that I …
KTHXBAI 2011!
Yeesh, I had thought that 2010 had been a tough one — I remember saying to a friend, somewhere around October of that year, 'I cannot wait to see the back of 2010.' And now we're all rolling our eyes at one another, shaking our heads and hoping for better in 2012... which is exactly …
Horsey Hols
Just in time, too. I think the cold weather had something to do with it, but everyone was kicking up their heels this last week of term. Now, as far as Tuesday was concerned, the wind didn’t help keep the lads settled down. We’re fairly used to the wind, up there on that big hill, …
Every So Often…
... we are sitting around, we lessonmates, waiting for the lesson to begin, and we sigh. We sigh and wish we were around the horses every day. As a job, like. I've been saying it more and more often, and not always to horse people. I've been saying it to people who work in offices …
One Year and Two and a Half Months
I guess about a month ago, I was trotting large in the ride and I realised that my foot was... okay. Not perfect, but seriously better. I had forgotten about the foot until that moment. I had begun once again blithely hopping up into the saddle. All the things that I had taken for granted, …
The Miracle Part III
THE SAGA CONTINUES This is what you get for thinking a bad thought. On Tuesday, as I winkled my long stick out of its hiding place, I thought, You know, it's been nearly a year since I hid this thing behind the big cabinet of hats. This has got to be a record! On Saturday, …
The Miracle Continues…
AM I JINXING IT??? I've been riding Connell with a shorter stick, and it hasn't been the best, so I decided to dig out the long stick again. I decided this with the understanding that it may very well not be there. Honestly, I found it again as I mentioned here, and that had been …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 