Brain Injury Awareness Month: Mind Your Melon

March 20, 2020

Brain Injury Awareness Month continues.  Fellow rider Dominique Gonzalez shares her own #mindyourmelon tale. I’m no stranger on having to “Mind My Melon.” With...

COVID-19: Is Your Barn Closed? Part One

March 19, 2020

The effects of COVID-19 have been infiltrating our lifestyles for quite some time now.  Many of us are now working from home when we used to commute to an offic...

How to Practice Constructive Social Distancing

March 17, 2020

There have been many mixed feelings about the current pandemic, canceling of horse shows and closing of businesses and schools. Don’t let social distancing get...

Brain Injury Awareness Month: Who has your Emergency Info?

March 12, 2020

Brain Injury Awareness Month continues!  As equestrians, it's absolutely vital to protect our melons while working with and around our horses.  Even a friendly ...

7 Things Equestrians Do While Recovering from an Injury

March 9, 2020

You might recall my blog late last year about my crappy ankles who didn't know how to do their job. After months of intense physical therapy, I finally got the ...

Brain Injury Awareness Day: My Concussion and Helmet Roundup

March 7, 2020

Today is Brain Injury Awareness Day.  As equestrians, for many of us, putting on a helmet to ride is a matter of course.  Some of us also don a helmet for groun...

Turning the Next Page: Joining the Nation Media Team as Editor

March 4, 2020

It was a typical Tuesday when, like clockwork, the Eventing Nation daily newsletter popped up in my inbox.  I'm a former eventer who used to eat, sleep, and bre...

The Start of A New Chapter: My Final Day as Editor

March 3, 2020

Three years ago, I joined the Nation Media family after hitting "send" on an email containing a humor piece I titled, "How to Train Your Horse Show Husband." I ...

The Life of a Kaley Cuoco Fangirl

January 28, 2020

In the equestrian world, most of the celebrities we swoon over are names that our significant others have never heard of. However, the real unicorn celebrity of...

A Slightly Unusual Equestrian Fashion Show

January 24, 2020

I will admit, fashion shows have never really been my thing. I just don't get it: tall skinny models sometimes wearing extremely odd clothing down a long runway...