The Dirt on Nicky

Now’s the time Uncle Wahoo said, “When it’s time to make a choice, you need to do something, because if you don’t, then that’s what...

ISawArkansas

You know, art can be risky. Kind of like thinking. When ideas bounce out of our heads, they might be fresh and profound but...

The Coffee Table

Square Pegs & Round Holes I am the descendent of my father’s Eastern European/cabbage eater family and my mother’s American roots/white trash heritage. One can put me in the...

HavingREELFun

I hope everyone had a happy, fun-filled, and most of all safe Labor Day weekend. The lakes were busy, the rivers were hopping, campers...

The Dirt on Nicky

The guy with a thousand beans, and they all have names John Withee was a photographer and adventurer who scaled the Grand Tetons and twice...

TheCoffeeTable

The Spider Catcher Why did it take the death of my life partner to be able to put things into perspective? Why is it that now I...

ISawArkansas

Last weekend, my best go-visit-on-Sunday pal, the one with a refrigerator and a woodstove in his garage, was out of our zip code. Thank goodness...

HavingREELFun

We all know this weekend is going to be like the last hurrah for this year’s lake activities, water activities, cooking, camping, etc... The...

The Dirt on Nicky

Wave to a gardener who went exploring Redwoods are majestic, and it’s a good thing we went there instead of the mountains. Our intended destination...

The Coffee Table

My Soft-Bellied Ignorance I’m trying to imagine being an Afghan citizen, whether it is one fleeing my home, packed in a plane with other refugees,...