I’m well aware it’s been a long time since I’ve posted on here, much less with any frequency. I blame quitting one job and starting another. A winter that overstayed its welcome by about three weeks hasn’t helped any either.
But, I decided that if spring is going to be reticent with signs of her arrival, [...]
(Jordan Lake Narrows)
Rosie and I just got back from a great three-night trip to the Boundary Waters with a crew of four rookie Californians (and one rookie dog). I’ll post more words and photos soon.
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“The upper valley is a rugged, wild region, a lonely and beautiful one, a land of brooks and creeks and rivers. The Totogatic and Namekagon, the Yellow and the Clam, the Kettle and the Snake, all once busy lumbering streams, today join the main channel to become true water [...]
Last week: River of all my years (steps 1-7)
Step 8: Ascend.
Friday afternoon we drive north out of the city for an hour and then east from Hinckley along rolling hills with state park on the south side of the road, rocky cattle pastures or fallow fields on the north side, small creeks and rivers [...]
“The river is magnificent. It’s a spiritual experience.”
- Former Vice President Walter Mondale on the St. Croix River
The river of all my years. The river I have paddled and swam and fished and waded and skinny-dipped and pondered from beside a campfire. Rocky and muddy and sandy.
Where my hometown sits on its banks the rivers [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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