(“. . . each movement would be written on a slip of paper and put in a fishbowl . . .”)
Category Archives: Blaggo Archives
(Click on each title to read the article)
They’re only secrets if you haven’t heard them
(“. . . she wants to do art but she doesn’t know how to hold the brush.”)
Here is part of Associate Editor Sidd Finch’s ongoing conversation with Bill reflecting on his years of teaching.
Reprises
(“. . . so comfortingly sensible and familiar.”)
Testing Body and Mind
(“See if he is willing to continue on”)
Free ≠ abandoned
(“A worthwhile skill to develop is the ability to bluff.”)
If your reaction is “Oh, yeah, everybody knows this,” then simply congratulate yourself. If you are an event rider, a foxhunter, or a trail rider, then what I am about to say ought to be second nature. But especially if you are late to riding and in particular to dressage riding, and even more so if you have acquired a schoolmaster to pursue your dream, then listen up!
Prep School
(“Ultimately you want . . . “)
A bit of a conundrum
(“The first two were short on harmony.”)
In the Mists of Uncertainty
(“Sometimes it’s downright shocking . . . “)
Misplaced Concerns
NOTE: Although this entry appears here after “Meet the New Tests,” it is out of chronological order and was written as a lead in to the new tests.
Meet the New Tests
(“What ARE you doing out there?”)