Starting college is tough, and it’s tougher still when you have to fly solo without your horse. McKenna Oxenden checks in. (more…)
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The Secret Life of McKenna: The next step
Young rider blogger McKenna Oxenden is all grown up and college bound. She catches us up on her secret public life. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: A Little Perspective…
…goes a long way. Young rider blogger McKenna Oxenden takes stock of where the past two years have taken her–and it wasn’t where she expected. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Keep calm & slump on
After a long period of silence because writing about her life just seemed too friggin’ depressing, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden returns to her regularly scheduled programming. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: The hard stuff
It’s always tough to sell a horse you care deeply about–but perhaps especially so when it’s your very first one. From junior blogger McKenna Oxenden. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Comeback kid
After months of setbacks following a riding accident last year, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden has officially re-entered the show ring. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Ups & downs
The last we heard from junior blogger McKenna Oxenden, things seemed to be on the upswing. This week, unfortunately, she received some bad news. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Hi mom! You’re the best
Junior blogger McKenna Oxenden can fly higher than an eagle, but her mom is the wind beneath her wings. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Ready for anything
Four months after seriously getting her head bonked, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden reports that her doctors have officially cleared her to ride. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: It’s showtime!
Still in recovery, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden had her trainer take the reins for Gigi’s first event of the season. Judging from the number of exclamation marks she used, it went well! (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Whatever you set your mind to
In this week’s column junior blogger McKenna Oxenden sets her sights on a new goal: being a groom at the 2013 North American Junior Young Rider Championships. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: A call to arms
Junior blogger McKenna Oxenden is an ambassador for the equestrian-meets-humanitarian organization JustWorld International, and she needs your help. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: In which McKenna uses 20 exclamation points over the course of five paragraphs
Which can only mean one thing: Her doctors have finally cleared her to ride. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Down but not out
Still on the sidelines after a riding accident in the December, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden updates us on her horse and his substitute rider. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: 'If you're not laughing, you're crying'
That's one pearl of wisdom junior blogger McKenna Oxenden took away from last month's USEA Area 2 Convention. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: When McKenna met Dorito
Our first four-legged best friends always hold a special place in our hearts. Junior blogger McKenna Oxenden looks back on the eight years she’s shared with her superpony, Dorito. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: When you can’t ride, how do keep from going insane?
That’s what our temporarily busted-up junior blogger McKenna Oxenden wants to know. Can anybody help her out? (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Kinesio Tape… for horses?
A recent riding accident left junior blogger McKenna Oxenden pretty banged up, but one physical therapy strategy got her to thinking: Could Kinesio Tape have crossover appeal? (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Fun with Urban Dictionary
Junior blogger McKenna Oxenden continually strives to keep old, outdated, uncool citizens of HN (like yours truly) updated on hip teenage lingo. Here’s her latest tutorial. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Deuces 2012!
(Editor’s note: Deuces is teenager-speak for “farewell.” I had to look it up myself). On the eve of the New Year, junior blogger McKenna Oxenden has one last look back at the year that was. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Life without horses? No thanks
Do you ever wonder where you’d be without horses? HN’s junior columnist McKenna Oxenden ponders the question. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: In which McKenna piledrives her head into the ground
The last thing you want to happen right before finals week is to fall off your horse and get a concussion. From junior blogger McKenna Oxenden… (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: The difference a year makes
This week junior blogger McKenna Oxenden reflects on the crazy year that was, and looks forward to the future. (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: That’s a wrap
This week junior blogger McKenna Oxenden reflects on the year that was and looks forward to a winter full of “practice, practice, practice.” (more…)
The Secret Life of McKenna: Thanksgiving edition
This week Horse Nation junior blogger McKenna Oxenden is counting her horsey blessings. (more…)