Last Thursday night I could be found at a bar two blocks away from the house where I grew up. At this bar was a guy I’ve known since I was eight years old and who would be married just two days later. Also at this bar were friends who have left our home in [...]
Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle I see my life. I see my dream. I see a house on some land. It is north of Stillwater, 10 or 15 miles. The rolling, wooded farms around Square Lake. It is not a large house, two stories. A good kitchen and a big, heavy dining room [...]
To be perfectly honest, I don’t remember many specifics about the three days I just spent at a lake in northern Wisconsin. In my memory, each day merges into the others, mornings into afternoons, nights into the dawn. This was something I considered as I sat on the lawn looking at the lake. I tried [...]
I’m heading north this weekend with a bunch of friends to bid a good friend, Andy, farewell from single life… He’s getting married next weekend. This is the gang that will be holding it down, plus or minus a few guys… That’s at my bachelor party on Snowbank Lake last year. The guest of honor [...]
What didn’t survive the cut in the Expectations post was a digression about how my generation has a jaded seen-it-all attitude that is very disturbing. We have largely been driven from the primitive, from the real laws of nature, of the wild, the principles of being human. I felt it working very strongly in me [...]
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 [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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