Have you heard that podcast where in each episode a person details the top 10 things they are afraid of? It’s funny, enlightening, and full “ME TOO!!!” moments.  I wanted to join in the fun, so here’s my version of “the 10 things I’m most afraid of”. I’m writing these down in no particular order […] more

Last week I dumped the grey and black water tanks on the motor home BY MYSELF before heading home last Friday. Like a bad ass. Perhaps you are surprised to hear that this was even worth mentioning.  Let me ask you, would YOU make any effort to actually learn how to do this if by […] more

Note: This post was written on Thursday (yesterday) and posted today (Friday).  “Write something”, my Bujo says for today, and so here I am, writing.  All the days from Friday through yesterday blend together right now in a way that it does not seem melodramatic to tell you “I am *temporally lost right now”. In […] more

Did you think I could really let the new year slip by without my annual “definitely not a gift guide” post? For those of you that indulged in copious amounts of eggnog and don’t remember what the point of these posts are, this is about items that came into my life this year that bring […] more

Let’s say you have a horse on stall rest. A very smart, relatively young horse that just came home for three months from the trainer where she was amused every.single.day. From past experience I knew that MerryLegs responds to stall rest with fidgety restless energy that barely leaves the stall standing, when she isn’t busy […] more

What happened in 2018 can be boiled down to this very simple thing: If there was any doubt that just getting out the door and running made a difference, I’ve just learned that lesson. The table above compares the Dec-Oct period of training for Rio 2016 versus Rio 2018. Rio 2016 I had a fabulous race […] more