What equine adventures do you see on the horizon of 2012?

by Leadmare | Another year is winding down — can you believe it? Did you know 2011 marked the 10-year anniversary of Girls Horse Club? Wow, in Internet years that’s a VERY long time! How long have you been hanging out at GHC?

by LeadMare | Hola GHCers! I hope you’re having a fantastic Fall. Mine has been jam-packed with amazing experiences, primarily centered around my Blue Sky adventure in Guatemala. It was a whirlwind…

by LeadMare | It’s when I’m outside my daily routine, surrounded by nature under the vast blue sky, that blue sky thoughts fill my head and heart. By definition, blue sky thinking is impractical — not grounded in reality — but I don’t let that deter me from believing my wildest dreams can turn into some form of reality…

by LeadMare | Year after year I dreamt of taking a horse riding trip in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and year after year I came up with excuses for putting it off. I’d tell myself, It’s expensive. I’ll feel guilty going on a trip without my hubby. I’m not a good enough rider… But this year (which happened to coincide with a milestone birthday) something shifted and I knew my excuses were lame…

I’m the type who loves to ponder meaning, so when I saw a photo of me and my lesson horse, our strides in sync as we began warming up for a ride, it led me to ask this question: When a horse and human are riding (or walking) in sync, is it a result of unrelated actions occurring together by chance (synchronicity)? Or is it a result of cause and effect (causality)?

by LeadMare | I enjoy my coffee in the morning, but the fact is I don’t need artificial stimulation to get moving — I’m naturally caffeinated. If you’re a person with a lot of energy, you know that if you don’t release that energy in a healthy way, it’s no fun for you and the people around you…

General submissions are open, and we hope to give our readers some great content to feed their love for horses! To help encourage more variety and originality, let’s talk about non-fiction. Non-fiction can be challenging and many authors struggle with how to make it original, particularly when writing something that incorporates fact and learning from other sources…

For those of you who would like to participate in Part 1 of our Every Picture Tells a Story contest but aren’t sure where to start, I wanted to provide some links to free source images and online editing tools…

Here at the GHC blog, we support young horse girls with a platform for their writing talent and volunteers who offer their expertise to showcase that talent. Our Submission Guide has information about the publishing process and tips for how to submit work that gets the attention of editors. But did you ever wonder how we think about what gets published from a bigger picture perspective? Well, now’s your chance to get a bit of history and information about our editorial process…