The glorious sun and the open road beckoned me with their siren song that fateful April Sunday afternoon. Just hours before, I had stood before the congregation… Read more “Ditches, Diet Coke, and Dad”
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Life According to the Trees
If you want to experience wild beauty, you can find it in a region of northern Minnesota known as the Iron Range. Every season has a magnificence… Read more “Life According to the Trees”
Lady in Red
It was July of 1989, the summer before the start of what I had been anticipating my whole life—my senior year at Virginia High School. There was a… Read more “Lady in Red”
If This Paddle Could Talk
Here is the latest addition to the deck glamper (where I like to sit and write in the summer months)—my big brother Cedric’s canoe paddle. I should… Read more “If This Paddle Could Talk”