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Where I Am
"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed."- Mary Oliver ... And this was where i was at 8 am , with JJ cutting Chip's hair." Make sure everyone sees my muscles" Chip said. And I have to say, it was a Papa Bob moment. He flexed a lot and used...
Best in the World for A Day
Grandma Joanne is much more relaxed now that the event is over and Karen is both in one piece and successful—not a medal, but the top ten in the world is a pretty nice spot to be in for a 54 year-old athlete, and she rode a big, kind of dangerous horse, very well. Mr....
A Postcard from the Equestrian Olympic Venue
I figured you might like these pictures of our day yesterday, from walking through Greenwich Park to the stadium to Karen jumping, the quick re-arranging of the grounds before the awards, the medal presentations and the international teams' party afterward for the...
Karen is the best of the US at the Olympics
Karen finished ninth today, and was the top American. The team had some trouble, to say the least, with the only other good round going to young Will Coleman, whose horse stopped at a jump yesterday on the cross country course and so they lost a bunch of points, but...
Like an English Novel? Early Morning Thoughts.
It is raining and cool this morning, which is too bad, as today is our last day at the event, and a stadium day, which is usually a kind of dress up day, as we are just watching show jumping. We are up early in our little London house taking turns in the bathroom,...
One More Day of Competition
It has been a crazy, good day and we are all wound up but tired. Karen is in 24th and rode very well, the US team moved up to 5th. (We were 8th yesterday.)We have 155 penalty points and the German team is in first with 124.7, so between first and fifth there are 30...
A Note About Monday’s Olympic Equestrian Eventing
We had a great day watching dressage with big thunderstorms and super riding. Karen is in 29th with a 48.20, third for the US team which is great as the top three scores of five riders count toward the team score. The top rider was a Japanese man, Oiwa Yoshiaki, which...