Vacating

I’m on vacation starting tonight after work.  The camper is being loaded as I write this.  Arrangements have been made for the animals that we’re not taking with us and as soon as the last email is sent it’s off

Counting…

My wife asked me about this story earlier.  It’s about what the FAA calls a Pilatus PC12 with 17 people on board that crashed in Montana killing all on board.  I’m not one to armchair quarterback usually but I’m wondering

When I grow up…

  I wanna be this feller: Have a listen Somewhere out in Mud BrookOut there in the sticksLives the last authentic completely unusual man He’s sick of the dad’gum guv’mentHe’s sick of his neighbors tooHe’s sick of me, and he’s

Dear Sir…

  Having thought about writing my congressional representatives lately I realized that few of us really even know where to send the mail.  When I went to look it up I discovered an amazing amount of (unintentional, I think) misdirection

Bag of tricks.

A quick short story because I happen to be thinking of it. I was boarding an international flight to London one evening a few years ago.  The boarding agent called for first class tickets and those of us who had

Ghosts…

Most hunters have at one time or another encountered a ghost deer.  Sometimes you’re just sitting there and hear something walking through the dead, dry leaves and can’t see anything moving.  Other times you’ll see a deer and it’ll suddenly