Think about this concept, if you've not done so before: everything has an expiration date. Everything. Let's start with the basics: a carton of milk, a can of soup, special offers from your favorite restaurant. These are expiration dates that...
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Say it with Me, Slowly: Cooperation, not Domination
In the next few days, I'll post several articles. I hope you like them all. But tonight I have to dash off a little something, inspired by a video I just saw on Facebook. Don't worry, it won't be long,...
Horse Racing Needs a Commission, and a Commissioner. Now.
Horse racing is in dire need of direction. It's the only major sport in the United States that doesn't have a regulating body--and that, as we've seen, has led to a mess. States regulate medications, race days and everything else--but there's...
Horse Auction for Life: Here’s an Idea…
People who know me on a particular social networking 'site are aware that I had an existential crisis this week. Well, OK, I didn't wonder whether my very existence had any meaning--but I felt mighty guilty over something that, on...
World Peace, One Horse at a Time
It's the eve of 9/11/11, and, like most of the world's citizens--I have many thoughts about the day and the significance thereof.But the thoughts swirling inside my head all direct that I still believe in world peace...one horse, one horselover,...
Saratoga Race Course: Field of Dreams
Saratoga Race Course in the summer is searing, steamy, sweltering. Mop-your-brow hot. But the weather is merely a metaphor, the outward expression of the heat that's generated by the power of the horses in residence during these six weeks. Of the...
The Wind of Heaven to Blow Through Lex on October 9th.
"The Wind of Heaven is that which blows through a horse's ears." (Bedouin proverb) It's Friday, October 8th, and the world is Secretariat-crazy. That's groovy: I love Big Red, I adore Penny Chenery. I met her daughter, Kate Chenery Tweedy...
IT is Upon Us! Saratoga 2010 is Almost Here…
It's on Its way. Can you feel It? Does your heart beat a little faster, knowing that It's almost here, and with It, friends and colleagues whom you've not seen in a dog's age? Is the electricity in the air--the...
Mare’s Musings: Equus HealMySoul-icus: Valium on the Hoof
Life is funny. If the opportunities for vocational fulfillment that I'm currently enjoying were presented to me 30 years ago, I'd have realized that it was cool, but I wouldn't have been focused enough to do the jobs to the...
Horse Sense: Enjoy the Kentucky Derby–and Keep it in Perspective.
Tra-lee, tra-la, 'tis Derby Day! The Kentucky Derby, the Thoroughbred horse race that comes packin' over 100 years of history, lore, rituals and fanatics. With many thanks to the owners of CDI, we acknowledge that this is the one day...