A week or so ago, Fisherman and I traveled to northern Wisconsin to make a go at the Steelhead on a famous Lake Superior tributary. It was my first time and — though I landed but one 8″ smolt — worth the trip if only for the majesty of the river and the opportunity to […]
A hot month passes and it seems I spend the whole time working and coming home from work and working around the house. Getting it ready. Paying for previous procrastination. And then a particular Saturday comes and goes and dozens of people visit our new home and talk and laugh and eat and drink and […]
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need is here.
And we pray, not for new earth or heaven,
but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear.
What we need is here.
~ Wendell Berry
Congratulations again to B (Sleepy) […]
I found myself standing in the middle of a very cold river again today. I put my fly rod together, strung it up, tied on a buggy little nymph, put some weight and a strike indicator on and flung the whole deceiving contraption out into the current. Then, I intently watched the bright indicator flow […]
The road trip to end all road trips
Minnesota — Black Hills, South Dakota (Deadwood, fly fishing, etc.) — Cody, Wyoming (Buffalo Bill museum) — Yellowstone (O, Yellowstone) — Bozeman, Montana (friends and memories and mountains and rivers) — Missoula (never been, wonderful mountains […]
I wish I could feel that way again right now. I wish it bad to feel so focused and independent. So calm and so awake. So still.
There was a fish rising right next to a rock sticking out of the water at the top of the pool. I noticed it as soon as I got […]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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