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Stratocaster, 2006-2018
He was coming 4, big and slow and goofy. I brought him an apple from my hotel, and it took him about 20 minutes [...]
A Reminder Of Our Own Mortality
There have been so many. A working student’s horse on whom I made it about 20 feet. A homebred 3-year-old on whom I made [...]
So You Didn’t Win Young Riders
So you came in eighth or 12th or 24th. You made mistakes, or you got in the ring and panicked, or you got cocky [...]
Summer Break
Last weekend we attended our last show of our summer season. The competition season here in Virginia starts in April, revs up through May [...]
Beat The Heat
Summer has hit us like a freight train, with heat indexes over 100* and high humidity here in Virginia. Summer is long and unrelenting [...]
The Mayo Clinic Approach
The Mayo Clinic is one of the finest hospitals in the world and uses a creative approach to patient care: each patient has a [...]