When the snow was coming down a couple of months ago, so was my moral. I was out having coffee with a friend, prior to heading out for a later-than-usual private lesson, and I just felt so bad about my riding that I didn't even want to go. The white stuff kept falling, then stopping, …
Just for a Moment
I can gauge my progress more clearly now. It used be: didn't fall off. Now, there are some things that are happening that happen, just for a moment, and they change everything. I had two weeks off from bitless riding, down to the Easter holiday and school mid-term break and pony camps. I wasn't sure …
Seeing A Man About A Horse
NOT FOR ME! NOT YET! But I will — I will! — be undergoing this process sometime, so when Sharon asked me to accompany her to Kilkenny to check out a chestnut mare, I was not going to say no. I haven't been on a road trip in a while, and as corny as it …
Heart to the Sky
Well, I ride Morris really well in the walk. The trot... we're working on it. I'm not sure why, but it's almost like I get on a horse I don't know very well, and forget everything. I don't know what that is. But when exhorted to rise from my hips rather than my legs — …
Oh, By the Way
You couldn't move around here for being faced with announcements about the imminence of my debut novel, Drama Queen. Er, well, I've got a second book coming out, uh, on Thursday. The Fidelity Project is suffering from 'second child' syndrome, in which, after the fluttering and fear-of-dropping, and pinning nappies backwards of the first one, …
What’s the Problem?
So, in my own inimitable way, I've started telling people, should they ask, 'Yeah, well, I ride three times a week at one place, and one time a week at another place.' Uh. What? I think the problem is that I'm, like, feeling like a show off, or something? This is so totally stupid, and …
Some Things I Would Like to Say…
BUT WILL NEVER, EVER SAY 'Yes. Yes. I understand what you're telling me. Yes, I can hear you, and intellectually, what you're saying makes total sense. Intuitively, maybe not. It's hard to imagine that if my horse is dropping his inside shoulder while we're cantering a circle, that if I open up the inside rein, …
Do Over
I can't get those vids to upload. I couldn't even view them until I downloaded some fancy-schmancy plug-in, so I'm going to bring a different camera on Saturday, and Lorraine said she'd video us. I'm sure that the quality of the lesson will be just as high as the one that got taped. We really …
Not a Bit of It
I decided that I wanted to take some private lessons at Festina Lente, where I offer reiki to the horses. For whatever reason — despite my feeling that my riding has been getting worse — I wasn't nervous. Not a bit. I stared languidly out the bus window, I walked up the long road placidly, …
Live! From Carrickmines…
I may have some video to put up, if I can figure out how to make the clips download properly. I shot some cool shark stuff in an aquarium in Valencia last year, and still haven't sorted it out. Barbara shot some footage of our lesson today, and it would be a shame if I …
MANY BRAVE FOOLS 