Horse Play
Ellinore has found it hard to ride regularly this fall. She leaves for school at 7 in the morning and is not …
A case of equine colitis
On Saturday morning last week I was working in the garden and noticed Mac lying down in the upper field. This is …
Eventing Camp
Rebecca is in India, and the kids are off to Ithaca, New York, for most of the week. But not before Ellinore …
A Weekend at the Cheshire Fair
Ellinore and I spent the weekend at the Cheshire Fair Horse Show. The one hundred and forty-nine classes ran from Friday to …
No Reception
One late-July evening last week, amid the green forests and corn fields of Vermont, Ellinore sighed that she had lost cell phone …
Hay for the Horses
A lovely little poem in Gary Snyder’s 1959 book Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, “Hay for the Horses, begins like this: He …
Three’s a Charm
It is hot this week—really, really hot. Yesterday we spent the afternoon not really knowing what to do because of the heat. …
