The Aging Eventer: What to Expect from Experience
The answer to the question, “What can I gain from this?” can easily be answered by the Aging Eventer. “Pain.” Pretty much that is the state of most of my days, and most of the
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Barn-Starved
It was a nice 95 degrees at the Grand Canyon in the middle of the summer, and my family was visiting the hole for the third or fourth time. As customary for our family adventures,
...» Read More!Stop Playing Small
I have a friend who says I play small. In my riding. In my writing. Essentially, in my presentation of myself. Frankly, I think it or more to the point I, drive her crazy at
...» Read More!Red Mare Tribute to My First ‘Real’ Event Horse, Beaulydar
Today I had to say goodbye to Beauty, my first “real” event horse and my partner of nearly 20 years. Back in the year 2000, when it came time for me to upgrade from my
...» Read More!Where Do I Go From Here?
Grief is an odd emotion. It teaches you to be humble, about how well you know yourself, and about how you treat others. I have always found myself wondering at the public nature of some
...» Read More!Best of JN: #AdultAmmyProbs Why This Jumper is Giving Eventing a Whirl
As we all know, showing hunter jumpers on the A-circuit isn’t exactly known for being budget-friendly, but lately Facebook has been full of turmoil as show fees seem to be rising across the country. USEF
...» Read More!Beating the Winter Blues: Postcard from the Frozen Tundra, Week 3
Are you an ammy-adult eventer who struggles with motivation during the winter months? Madison Givens feels your pain. She is embarking upon her own winter fitness and accountability journey, and taking EN along for the
...» Read More!Savage.
Savages. That’s the word I would use to describe teenage girls. I don’t own one yet (I’m in trouble when we get to that point…) but from my limited interactions with them in the barn,
...» Read More!Who Is Your Eventing Guardian Angel?
Sometimes, occasionally, from time to time, it has been known to happen that things don’t in fact go according to plan. What does the eventer do? She does not cry, he does not complain, they
...» Read More!What We Can Learn About Parenting From Riding
Once upon a time I had a job. A job that paid money. This job was teaching people how to ride horses. Riding a horse can be as complicated (and expensive) as you want to
...» Read More!A Little Less Tiffany and a Little More Andrea
In December EN blogger and Vermont eventer Kate Rakowski spread her snowbird wings and flew south to Ocala, Florida (see blog post here) with her horse, Kissa. The mission: training with Tik Maynard. Here’s her latest
...» Read More!Best of HN: Khutulun & Her 10,000 Horses
Once upon a time, in a land called Mongolia, there lived a girl named Khutulun. She was not your average girl, mind you. She was the great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and she was a Mongolian
...» Read More!How Do You Pick Yourself Up?
When you pick yourself up from the mud, you have two options: laugh or cry. In riding, we often say after a fall you get back on or you go to the hospital. But what
...» Read More!‘She’s Complicated’
In December EN blogger and Vermont eventer Kate Rakowski spread her snowbird wings and flew south to Ocala, Florida (see blog post here) with her horse, Kissa. The mission: training with Tik Maynard. Today she reports
...» Read More!Never Say Never
What is it about the word “never?” There have been songs penned about it, books written about it, movies entitled it, and birds cawing it (well, sort of…) Maybe it has to do with
...» Read More!Things I Have Learned From My Horse
Horses have a simplicity that I envy. They do not plot, though we may joke, and they do not dwell. They live in the moment, recall their training (mostly), and often do what they are
...» Read More!Beating the Winter Blues: Winter Fitness and Accountability, Week 1
Are you an ammy-adult eventer who struggles with motivation during the winter months? Madison Givens feels your pain. She is embarking upon her own winter fitness and accountability journey, and taking EN along for the
...» Read More!Lessons Learned: Our First USEA Recognized Novice
That Ride Heels Down saddle pad looks amazing. And JJ’s not so bad, either. Photo by Erik Jacobs of P.TEN Marketing. I basically disappeared in December. We did our last event on December 1st, JJ had off
...» Read More!On Fear
Fear. We all have it in one way or another. In a sport where one is under constant criticism, constructive or otherwise, and constant judgement, putting down the “you are now being judged” cap can
...» Read More!Best of Horse Nation: Equestrichondria, or Basically Being a Horse Person
My last personal horse was so hardy and apparently indestructible (other than his somewhat tenuous grip on reality) that you might have assumed he was a mustang. He was never lame. He could go barefoot
...» Read More!Lessons Learned: Runnin’ in the Rain
Well, we just wrapped up another great eventing weekend and JJ stepped up once again to leave me smiling after it was all said and done. After getting his clipping catastrophe straightened out a few days before
...» Read More!Chasing the Places I Haven’t Seen
As the new year begins, I often find myself in reflection of not only the previous show season, but the year as a whole. Being I live my life by a series of corny John
...» Read More!We’re All Eventers Here: Me, Myself and I
“Usually, I had to be in tears — that was his clue to finally get on the trailer,” said one of my fellow Event Alone Club members. Are you also a member of the Event
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