WHY CAN’T CHRISTMAS last all year? You’d better be glad that it doesn’t. Christmas can be very dangerous, starting with putting up the Christmas decorations!… Continue reading
THIS IS A story about Thanksgiving in the olden days. It was back in the Depression, the Dirty Thirties. Pa had somehow got some turkey… Continue reading
AND SO, ANOTHER hunting season passes astern. I hope yours went better than mine. It was a shipwreck of failure, blame and excuses. Hunting experts… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT on the river. The shadowy forms of overhanging trees appeared like a tunnel in the twilight. There was the sound of water… Continue reading
THERE’S NOTHING QUITE like tent camping in the rain forest during the monsoon season. The rain falls like it’s being sprayed from a hose. The… Continue reading
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a hard day’s writing to make me glad I’m not one of the country’s leading Bigfoot researchers. I won’t bore you, dear… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA) issued its 2024-25 U.S. Winter Outlook. It was not a… Continue reading
AUTUMN IS A time of plenty on the Olympic Peninsula. The salmon are running. The game is fattened and the berries are ripe. This is… Continue reading
IT WAS DAYLIGHT at the homestead, but I was more than a little late for breakfast. I probably missed it by 50 years or so.… Continue reading
IT MIGHT HAVE been the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson who was credited with saying, “build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL Disaster Preparedness Month. It’s time to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies. This year’s theme for disaster… Continue reading
1890 WAS A good time to be on the Olympic Peninsula. That was before the coming of the railroads and the industrial age that slaughtered… Continue reading
IT WAS ANOTHER tough week in the news. We almost didn’t need a bombshell press release from Olympic National Park to ruin our weekend with… Continue reading
SEPTEMBER IS THE season of harvest, when we gather the fruits of our labors. It is the realization of a dream to have a small… Continue reading
BY NOW, I think we’ve all had it up to here with people complaining about the rain. That’s crazy. Psychologists have finally identified this chronic… Continue reading
YOU KNOW LIGHTNING’S getting closer when you feel the thunder in your bones. That’s how close it got during the recent storm that battered the… Continue reading
WITH THE MIRACLE of climate change, people living in the southern states of this great experiment in democracy we call America are bailing from their… Continue reading
