“Develop your locality. Get in your local color.â€
– Jack London
It was late in the day in early March. The sky was gray, the river was black, the banks were brown. He was sitting by the river drinking coffee. He had a little fire of twigs and brush that would extinguish in minutes if he quit [...]
Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this.
~ Richard Brautigan
We were sitting on the bank at lunch during a day on the Stillwater River. We were a three day hike into the backcountry. We had drunk a lot of whisky around the fire the night before and I [...]
They ate breakfast and then threw the Frisbee around for a half-hour. About noon, Jim left Honey and Lily at the campsite and walked off through the campground with rod in hand and his pockets stuffed with a fly box, clippers, and a few of the other small tools he would need.
He walked along a [...]
“Only in recollection does an experience become fully significant, as we arrange it in a meaningful pattern.†- from Lydia Davis’ introduction to Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust.
The high temperature this Friday is supposed to be –5. There’s no hiding from that. Rush hour tomorrow is supposed to see us getting more slippery snow. The [...]
i believe that this is very near where i went fly-fishing for the first time. maybe within 10 miles. it’s the madison river kind of near ennis, montana. gabe was driving and unfortunately i didn’t look at the map.
second of my two-part series of cross-posts from the fly fishing bulletin board. this post was in response to the debate between big fish/rewarding fish. someone asked what the most rewarding fish you’ve ever caught was. a lot of people had good things to say about how it was actually the fish their child/spouse/savior caught, [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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