i’m always revising what i write. and with my story “every cast the opportunity for perfection,” i’ve been meticulously going over it for about the twentieth time. there’s many reasons, some which i’ll keep to myself, but mostly it’s because i can’t wait until next season when i intend to keep a detailed fishing journal. [...]
monkey see, monkey do
November 12, 2004
okay, maybe i’m not quite done yet for another week (remember, no blogging on the weekend). i want to say that i don’t owe anything to natalie goldberg, but that would be selfish and untrue. when i was sixteen or so my parents came to terms with the fact that i liked to write. no [...]
me fool fish
November 8, 2004
from Dances With Trout: So maybe what you should do when you catch a great trout is go back to camp and make a pot of coffee because there will not be a bigger or better fish today. Sooner or later your partners will wander in and you can tell them all about it. That’s [...]
one of these days everything will be back to normal
November 4, 2004
There’s more to the story, but I’ll make it brief for now: when Katie and I were in San Francisco we saw Gary Snyder do a reading at City Lights Bookstore. It was monumental. We met a couple great guys in line waiting to meet Gary afterwards. Everyone was giddy and blissful. We could have [...]