Cooper's Crossroad

Summer has come to New England bringing with it : hours of coaching, training, horse shows, camps, haying and WARMTH. So much fun. On top...

For those who know me now, you know Cooper. For those who are not familiar, Mini Cooper aka "Cooper" is a small chestnut horse. I bought...

Lately, I have been on a vacation from the blog. Cooper's Crossroad and Dusty Dog Farm have been keeping me busy from before the sun...

The bright spring days and crocuses pushing out have lifted spirits both human and equine here at Dusty Dog Farm. In a formal welcome of...

Woolie is a pet sheep at Dusty Dog Farm. He came to us as a lamb. Rejected by his mother (sheep are notoriously poor moms), I happened to...

When I went to Sierra Tucson in August 2016 for a 30 day inpatient treatment program for complex PTSD, I WAS NOT a yoga buff. In fact, I...

Late winter can be a hard time for many, including horse and farm folk. No competitions, no grass growing, layers and layers of clothes,...

Last week my blog drifted hard in to Adverse Childhood Experiences and subsequent negative impact on life spans, a pretty intense...

Just over two decades ago the first groundbreaking study on ACEs (Felitti et al., 1998) documented the contribution of early life stress...

For those of you who have curiosity about the origin of Cooper's Crossroad, the following should help clarify. The seed of Cooper's...

Cooper's Crossroad Farming For Resilience school programs have been on hold lately, due to the holidays for some, due to COVID 19 for...

Good bye 2020 and Welcome 2021. I believe I can safely say most of the world population is looking forward to the New Year. Without over...

Winter has slowly crept its way in to New England. With it, the damp cold, deep cold, short day light hours, the first major snow,...

Remember a time you felt anger, frustration or stress? Are you frustrated because something did not work out the way you wanted it to?...

I am so grateful for the unseasonably warm weather we recently experienced in New England. ​I have faith it will help carry us through...

Highlighting Resilience I can not help but look around my life and often see clear examples of resilience in horses and humans. The...

Recently, in putting together the details of one of the Farming For Resilience sessions, I had the opportunity to illustrate and define...

To begin, I would like to explain my "Blog absence" : I believe that time is ACTUALLY running away from me. Weeks have gone by in the...

I have been spending my "spare time" recently working on the curriculum for Cooper's Crossroad's Farming For Resilience six week fall...

Finally we got much needed rain. For the first time all summer, I taught riding in our indoor arena this weekend. It is a dramatic shift...