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...
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...
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...
Feb 18, 2016 | Patti's Blog
For a long time, I’ve been an Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) consultant and trainer. Employers come to me to help them solve issues in their workplaces related to risks to their employees that they cannot handle on their own — dangerous...
Feb 11, 2016 | Patti's Blog
They say that when you’re a hammer, everything is a nail, and perhaps that is true. I teach for a living, my mom was a teacher, and so when I look at the issues facing AERC and its future success (and yes, survival) of course I think that the answer is EDUCATION. For...
Dec 27, 2015 | Patti's Blog
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Quote from Hal Borland, American journalist Everyone has a different way of coping. For me, it involves quiet time putting it all in...
