Apr 10, 2017 | Patti's Blog
This week I am vacationing with my brother’s family in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. My nieces are almost “up and out” as I like to call it, in their late teens and early twenties, and the youngest two are here, with friends in tow. I turn 50...
Mar 28, 2017 | Patti's Blog
That dainty girl in the photo is my first distance horse, Tess (short for Serendipitous — she was). She went on to be a rock-solid trail riding partner for my friend, Dr. Barb. That’s not me, but a friend of Barb’s, whom Tess safely toted around, no...
Feb 19, 2017 | Patti's Blog
A few years ago we got very involved in educating new and aspiring endurance riders. Education is kind of in my blood. My mom was a teacher, and my safety consulting business — 18 years old last month — focuses on providing creative, engaging and...
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...
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....
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...
