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Back in the Saddle After a 14-Year Riding Break
31 Aug 2025

Back in the Saddle After a 14-Year Riding Break

by Otter Creek | posted in: Activities, Horses, Personal Reflections, Rural Living | 0

After a 14-year hiatus sparked by a bad fall, I found the courage (and the perfect horse, Judy) to get back in the saddle. A reflection on second chances and overcoming fear.

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Otter Creek is a small rural township in northwest Wisconsin — the kind of place where the nights are quiet, the winters are long, where the people, fields and woods hold stories that deserve telling.

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Here, you’ll find reflections from the woods, stories handed down through family, and moments that would otherwise slip past unnoticed. It’s a record of rural life as it is — sometimes hard, often quiet, always honest.

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