by Patti Stedman | Jan 22, 2017 | Patti's Blog
No, don’t worry, you haven’t slept through the sanctioning of a new AERC-sanctioned distance. Ultimate Goals, or UGs, are a concept stolen from my friend Kathy Viele, an accomplished combined training (“eventing”) and dressage rider, and a veteran fox hunter. Some...
by Patti Stedman | Jan 9, 2017 | Patti's Blog
[Note: On Facebook this week, a funny little document started circulating and was shared all over. To the poster’s credit, they said they didn’t know who wrote it. It sounded more than eerily familiar to me. Back in 1998 or 1999, I was new to the internet....
by Patti Stedman | Nov 12, 2016 | Patti's Blog
A month ago, a week ago, the day before, I was counting down until the election was over. I was doing all I could to limit the inundation of ugliness. DVRing the local news, fast-forwarding through political ads and election coverage, passing quickly by posts on...
by Patti Stedman | Sep 11, 2016 | Patti's Blog
DISCLAIMER: There are few topics endurance riders share opposing views on more than electrolytes, electrolyte-ing protocol, and even whether to electrolyte at all. So as I write this blog, please note that this is just our experience from over fifteen years of...
by Patti Stedman | Sep 4, 2016 | Patti's Blog
Thanks, Sherlock. Yesterday as I had lunch with my BFF, we started discussing high school teachers and –alarmingly badly, I might add– attempted to recall our cast of characters by subject and year. I lamented using Cliff’s Notes rather than actually...
by Patti Stedman | Jun 30, 2016 | Patti's Blog
It has been a year of broken things. Cars and horses and dogs and relationships, both professional and personal. Stuff and non-stuff. Trust and health and faith in the fact that Right should prevail over Wrong. The gradual realization comes. Life is a series of broken...
