At the time this essay is due to be posted I am on a religious pilgrimage that is retracing the footsteps of St Paul through Greece and Turkey. This is […]
The Season of October October, perhaps more specifically, the first three weeks or so of October are a season unto themselves. The weather is unique. Early on some of the […]
For the last five or six years I have finished the trout season in southwestern Wisconsin, in an area known as the driftless region. The glaciers that scoured out […]
It started, as it usually does, subtly. The seed heads of the grasses lining the roads and in the fallow farm fields ripened and began to cast a tawny brown […]
The honking of a skein of Goose on a late October day always raises a sense of urgency as they sing to Autumn melding into the coming of winter. And […]
A few weeks ago, I attended what was advertised as a Gordon MacQuarrie “pilgrimage”. I put pilgrimage in quotes because Gordon MacQuarrie was not an overtly religious man. […]
These past few weeks there has been is a good-size slash of deep purple on the backside of a section of split-rail fence in my backyard. My brother Tom would […]
Things that go bump, or maybe not, in the Night – 8/19/2022 Summer and camping went together in my family. In fact, camping was the only kind of summer vacation […]
The Diddle Pole – 8/12/2022 I looked for it the other day, even though the August temperature was pushing 90 degrees. It was where it should be – in a […]
Downhill, hardly or “Peter Pan!” – August 5, 2022 When I was young, our family’s typical Sunday included a drive to Kaukauna to visit my maternal grandmother. My brother and […]
