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October 2025

Kristin Crosland: “I don’t think I would be alive without horses. Full stop.”

It started with a ski trip over Christmas in 2012. I hadn’t skied in many years, but afterward, I noticed I was having chest pain.

July 2025

Allison Springer: “Pony Club Saved Us”

I just feel very lucky. I was lucky I grew up without cell phones. I was lucky to be raised in Barrington, Illinois.

A young man in a light blue shirt standing next to a brown horse inside a stable, touching the horse's face gently.

July 2025

Ryan May: “I Choose Love”

Staying was not an option. If you grow up in a small town in the south, being gay isn’t an option. It’s considered a choice. And a bad one. Like, you’re going to hell. So, staying, after you come out, is not an option.

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a light blue button-up shirt, smiling, sitting indoors with a wooden wall in the background and pillows on a bench or couch behind her.

June 2025

Carrie Kehring: “The day I die will be the day I stop”

I love reading obituaries. I know that sounds weird. I just like the idea that your entire life story can be summed up in a few short paragraphs.

A woman wearing a black riding helmet, black riding jacket, and beige riding breeches walking on an indoor riding arena.

June 2025

Alex Ronningen: “I am an equestrian with Cystic Fibrosis, but I’m not my diagnosis”

My earliest memories of the barn are of my family. Saturday mornings, my sister and I would go riding at Childress Rodgers Stables and then after we’d hang out with Grandma Janet.