Blogging & Copyright Issues: When Can you use Copyrighted Materials?

I would have been thrilled to see my foxhunting collage as the image from the Masters of Foxhound Association’s Thanksgiving message if they’d asked me in advance or listed me as the creator. Unfortunately, they didn’t do either. They had incorporated my image into a graphic design of Thanksgiving cheer.  On the bottom right hand […]

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Saddle up for a new year!

It’s hard to believe that 2009 is over. Looking back at the blur of days and months there are a few things that I feel good about on the equestrian front. I forged a deeper bond with Freedom who has flourished as my one and only horse. I moved him up to the first flight […]

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Who’s writing “your” blog?

Recently I read something by another blogger that intrigued me. They wrote that someone else was writing “their blog.” Not literally, of course, but the blog they had intended to write when they started out. Their own blog had morphed into something entirely different. Other people then chimed in with the names of bloggers who […]

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Honest Scrap Award

I was thrilled to find out that Equine Ink has received the “Honest Scrap” award from The Literary Horse. It really makes me happy to learn that people enjoy reading my blog, especially when it’s Jane because I so much enjoy her blog (and cannot believe that she is not funny in person). Now comes […]

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What was in the air last March?

When I was reading The Barb Wire today Tamara was ruminating that she’d started writing the blog a year ago. That brought me up short. I went back to figure out when I’d started writing Equine Ink and it was on March 9th, 2008 starting with this post: Goldilocks and the 31 Saddles. By no […]

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