Exploring the Fine Art of Romance
I love my family but the big holidays aren’t what they should be. There’s always tension and every year some big drama occurs. I’m...
The Pursuit of Happiness
By Dan Krotz - My wife and I bought a new car as a Christmas gift to each other for the next 10 years,...
The Nature of Eureka: On the origins of a mistletoe kiss
By Steven Foster - We link the Christmas tradition of catching a kiss beneath mistletoe hung in a doorway to long-forgotten pagan traditions and...
Dropping a Line
By Robert Johnson - Well, it’s almost Christmas and I wonder how many wives got their man a new fishing rod and new tackle....
The Pursuit of Happiness
If there is a single dividing point among Americans it is how they view ideas about equality and fairness. On the surface, equality and...
Exploring the Fine Art of Romance
I lost my wife of 25 years just before Thanksgiving. I think my son and daughter, both in their early 20s, and I only...
Dropping a Line
By Robert Johnson - Well he did it. Dave Moon got his limit for the stripers last Tuesday evening. I thank Mary Pat, she’s...
The Pursuit of Happiness
By Dan Krotz - The Wall Street Journal, along with Forbes and Bloomberg News, have run stories recently on “The Happiest and Unhappiest Places...
The Nature of Eureka: Happy Crystallofolia Season
By Steven Foster - It is crystallofolia time! Perhaps new to your natural history vocabulary, “crystallofolia” is a term coined by Bob Harms of...
Dropping a Line
By Robert Johnson - Taxidermy business is great, but you can’t stuff a fish until you catch it.
Here at Holiday Island the walleye, bass...





