Bird hunting season is finally here, and for the first time in 50 years, I have no setter in the bullpen. To be sure, I’ll hunt behind Ragan, my longtime male setter, but Ragan turned 14 last spring and field time will be limited. His ace reliever, a young shorthair...
Pawing through a box of travel notebooks the other day, I found one with 1992 on the cover. Wondering what on earth I did thirty years ago stirred some curiosity; so I refilled the coffee cup, fed a big bolt of cherry to the woodstove and carried the notebook to a...
“All’s well that ends well…” Shakespeare Note to readers: I could be putting together one of those family Christmas letters, but my annual look back at the year winding down is more satisfying to write and hopefully more interesting for you to read. Maybe...
Michigan Meanders…Don’t even think about badgering a badger Although badgers live throughout the state, few Michiganders have ever seen a live one. Maybe they are lucky. Badgers know no fear and when provoked will attack an enemy several times their size. This...
“When two objects collide, there’s a reaction to the action.” As I recall from high school physics class, that’s a rough paraphrase of one of Newton’s Laws. Many years later I realize there’s also a “push for every pull” when it comes to human behavior. Do you...
