Maria Wachter
HN Holiday Carols: The 12 Daze of Christmas
Only 12 days to go… →
5 Answers You’ll Get When You Ask the Internet For Advice
No matter what your question might be. →
#TBT: Tales From the Dude Ranch, As Heard From the General Public
Working at a dude ranch guiding trail rides with never-evers gave Maria Wachter a lot to chuckle about. →
Duct Tape: The 8th Wonder of the Horse World
Where would we be without it? →
New Product Alert: Saddle-Piddle Pal
Are your friends tired of giving you a leg up every 10 minutes because you have the bladder →
If Horse People Worked at the Crayola Factory
…then colors would have more creative names. →
Mule Saddles: An Impossible Quest
“If it looks like it should hang on the wall at a dive bar, it’ll probably fit.” →
5 Truths About Riding Mules
Maria Wachter, Horse Nation’s resident mule whisperer, meets a lot of folks out on the trail who ask →
Candy Hearts From Your Horse
Straight from the horse’s mouth… to yours. →
The People You Choose to Ride With: A Life Lesson
Go find your herd: Maria Wachter knows the kind of people she wants to go riding with. And →
Khutulun and Her 10,000 Horses
Now THIS is a princess story I can get behind. →
New Year’s Appreciations
Resolutions are the way of the past. Appreciation is the way of the future! →
If People Were Horses: A Thought Experiment
What if people interacted with other people the way that we interact with horses? →
5 Reasons Not to Get Your Kid a Pony For Christmas
(Tongue-in-cheek, people — relax, we don’t actually hate ponies.) →
‘What’s That On Your Feet?’: My Responses to Non-Equestrians Asking About My Spurs
Yeah, I know I could sit them down and explain the real reason we use spurs, but this →
11 Ways My Mule Definitely Tries to Mess With Me
I don’t think he’s actually this smart, but who knows. →
All of the Places I’ve Recently Found Bits of Hay
It may be a problem. →
Things That REALLY Scare Equestrians
Who said anything about ghosts and goblins? This is the real stuff of nightmares. →
Standing In the Saddle: The Horse Trader’s Secret
“Maybe you need to pick pine nuts, maybe you need to install that sign on your barn and →
Satire: New Hair Shades to Appeal to Equestrians
“Because of this price drop and catchy names for the color shades we expect to climb out of →
On ‘To Forever Home Only’
Let’s get real for a minute, people. →
The Tale of the Wheelbarrow Full of Hay
Halloween is right around the corner… and what could be spookier to your horse than the tiniest change →
10 Reasons We Don’t Want to ‘Come Back’ As Horses
Nope, nope, nope. →
Horse People vs. Non-Horse People: Colors
Non-horse people: “Looks like a cow!” →