1. Very long, very HOT showers, and pomegranate shampoo.

2. Warm, breezy sunshine that lifts my spirits and is drying up all the MUD!

3. The blue leopard-print polo wraps that Holly loaned me to use on Chase, because you just can't take yourself too seriously riding a horse wearing blue leopard-print athletic socks.

4. Big, thick absorbing books to ( Read more... )

Day 16 - Your first kiss

Ahhhhhh.... nostalgia.
I was nineteen, believe it or not - mostly because my philosophy on relationships and dating was, and still is, something akin to this:

"Unless it's mad, passionate, Extraordinary love, it's a waste of your time.  There are too many mediocre things in life.  Love shouldn't be one of them."

Also, the ( Read more... )

A double dip tonight, to make up for my slackerness:

Day 5 - Your definition of love
I think entire books have been devoted to this question, if not entire lives!  But, basically, I believe that love is fierce, and powerful, joyful and painful, bigger than our bodies, beyond judgment.  Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not ( Read more... )

Day 2  - Your first love

My first love was in summer of 2005; I was nineteen and never-been-kissed.  I was holding out for someone really WORTH it, see, never guessing that it would be someone I'd already known for six years!  I fell for an acquaintance turned friend turned best friend, and it all happened fast, although I think I loved him long ( Read more... )

I wrote this in June of 2007.

This barn is twenty-five years old and for three years I have been pretending it belongs to me. This barn is where I spend sixty hours of every week, the place to which I devote all of my time and energy in exchange for the shelter of my beloved horses. This barn holds twelve horses and half of them have left ( Read more... )

Exactly six years ago today, I moved my two horses into a big old fixer-upper of a barn and took the first step into a new phase of my life.  I had four students.  I was so, so naive and so full of uncertainty and big dreams.  Six years later, I have twenty-two students and six horses and a wonderfully growing and awkward adolescent business and ( Read more... )

..... I truly believe that there is a wonderful and compatible person out there for everyone.  My someone may not know I exist yet, and might not for years and years, but out of 6.8 billion people, somebody somewhere is wishing for someone just like me.

Therefore, I don't have to settle!

..... Honestly, this is a good time of life for me to be single ( Read more... )

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Just because something turns out to be too good to be true doesn't mean you can't look forward to someday experiencing something that good again.

.... I just miss EVERYTHING about being in a relationship.