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Oh Joy Begin

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” The morning after we found out we were pregnant with you, we were sitting at the kitchen table when a lightning storm lit up the sky. I had my hands wrapped around a mug of warm herbal tea, with Asher […]

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Riding in the Redwoods

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” Redwoods. Coastal breezes. Cooler temperatures. Mist, fog, and the magic of shaded forests… Cuneo Creek was always a ride I wanted to enter, but after more than a decade of competing in the sport of endurance, it still hadn’t made […]

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I Am His Everything.

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” There is a certain type of exhaustion that comes with being a new mom. It’s the type of exhaustion that sometimes causes crying fits (from both mom and baby), that I-don’t-care-if-I-brushed-my-teeth, I’m-going-to-the-grocery-store-in-my-pajamas kind of exhaustion. It’s that type of exhaustion […]

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Why Not Home?

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” I recently went to a film screening of the documentary Why Not Home? I knew the gist of the movie. I knew the movie would make a case for home birth. What I didn’t know was that the movie chronicled […]

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Capturing Memories

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!”   Giving birth is such an intense, intimate experience. It is one of those single moments in a woman’s life that she will never forget. Most women want to preserve those birth memories in some form — whether through photographs, […]

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The Birth of Asher

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” Every woman, from the time she finds out she’s pregnant, dreams, plans, and anticipates for that one big moment. The birth of her child.   I was very confident that I would know exactly when it was time. I had […]

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Because Why

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” When I was pregnant this last time, with my third child, at 35 years old, I had some very different reactions when my husband and I first announced our pregnancy. Of course, there were the typical “Congratulations!” “So happy for […]

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Me too.

Click The Title Of The Post To Comment And Don’t Forget To”Subscribe to Endurance Riding!” There are so many things we still don’t talk about. Sure, a huge social media campaign has thousands of women admitting #MeToo. So, that is one step forward. We are less afraid now to admit it has happened. But we […]

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