The world was charcoal gray, if I could have seen the horizon it would have been silver. Everything on my body felt wrong. My stomach felt like it was full of acid, my head and neck felt stiff. I wasn’t (really) hungover but I had gotten to sleep only a few hours before and all [...]
I haven’t posted much the past few weeks. Life and its obligations have conspired to keep me pretty busy. We’ve been having a lot of fun. Some might say, too much fun. When I’ve had the forethought, I’ve sought to preserve the moments in pictures (Coen bros. movie reference, gold star if you name it). [...]
*Please don’t read this if you don’t like cussing.* "Excuse me, was somebody shooting up here?" "You’re goddamn motherfucking right I was shooting at those goddamn grackles they eat all my fucking minnows." We had traveled five hours from Minnesota for a friend’s wedding. I had a morning to myself in an area reputed for [...]
I almost didn’t go fishing tonight. All afternoon as I closely monitored the weather radar it seemed like I was looking for some excuse to go home and sit on my ass. I wanted a good June evening of fishing, but I haven’t felt very confident since getting skunked a week-and-a-half ago, and not being [...]
Last Thursday night I was driving home from work. As it has been all the time lately, the sky was a high gray, threatening drizzle, and the wind was steady from the northwest. I was thinking about the politics of a small community of people. Bitterness, harsh words, personal attacks, long grudges, difference chosen over [...]
You rock / rock. / The rock just sits and is. / You show us how to just sit here / and that’s what we need. It is cold here in Minnesota right now. I don’t know if the rest of the nation is aware of that. It is windy, rainy, damp, dreary. And it [...]
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