Month: May 2018

Supermoon Ride

It was shortly after lunch one November day and I was at work when my phone lit up. It was a text from my friend, Elizabeth, to me and a couple of other friends asking “Does anyone want to go to Nancy’s tonight for a supermoon ride? We can stay overnight and come back on…



A motley crew of atypical trail riders

Maybe I’m wrong, but to me the stereotypical trail rider rides a ~15 hand Quarter Horse in western tack. Google is on my side. I searched “horse trail riding” in the Google image search and came up with photo after photo of folks riding in western tack on these nice beefy Quarter Horses. Now, don’t…



Kids’ stuff

My parents separated when I was five-years old and during my childhood my siblings and I spent the school year with our mother in a Boston suburb and summers with our father on Cape Cod. Dad owned a big company so he wasn’t home much. In the early years he would hire one of my…



Coping with Directional Insanity

I have a bit of a confession to make. Here goes – My name is Kerrie, and I have absolutely no sense of direction. Seriously. People always think that I am exaggerating when I say this, but I once got so lost going to a friend’s house roughly 10 minutes from where I grew up…