Free to Wander
The book that’s coming in two weeks is, in a way, about freedom and fitness.
Read more "Free to Wander"Where the Wild Fish Are.
In Pennsylvania, trout season is upon us, or will be on Saturday the sixteenth. It’s all about tradition here in the Keystone State, I guess. It’s the time of year at which the state of Pennsylvania fires off a sort of starting gun and hordes of men and boys with fishing tackle descend on the […]
Read more "Where the Wild Fish Are."Run for Your Life
I’m on day two of my spring running program and it shouldn’t be this way. I should have been running right through the winter but I let it lapse, for no good reason. This winter especially left me with no excuse – it was exceptionally mild. I’ve always taken running as the basis of whatever […]
Read more "Run for Your Life"Urban Renewal
There’s a sprawling field near my home in Pittsburgh encompassing a meandering, branching valley and surrounding the headwaters of Chalfant Run. This was a golf course not too long ago and I would have never visited there when it was. The place has evolved in the last few years, however, since the golf club went […]
Read more "Urban Renewal"Food for Thought
I’m just in from a few days of South Carolina rest and relaxation doing the sort of thing I’ve been dreaming of through the recent weeks of dedicated book preparation: wading a slow sandy creek and trying to catch catfish. The outing was for my nephew Stephen as well, a chance for him to escape […]
Read more "Food for Thought"Final Push
There’s a book coming. I’m not kidding; I know I’ve been promising for a long time. This will just be a short entry today to keep folks abreast of progress as I prepare to hand the manuscript off for some final editing of technicalities and then – off to the presses. An early April book […]
Read more "Final Push"Welcome Spring with an Open Mind
Those of us who wait year round for the cold pleasures of the brief mid-Atlantic winter have to grudgingly concede now that spring has sprung here in Pennsylvania. All the ice has been gone for a couple of weeks and every morning more green is visible from my back window than there was the day […]
Read more "Welcome Spring with an Open Mind"Celebrate Renewal
This post may be a “spoiler” for the upcoming book but here it is, a sliver of what we’ll be walking toward when the adventure begins. I don’t believe the news on the environment is all bad news. In fact, there’s a great case to be made for just the opposite: that our natural environment […]
Read more "Celebrate Renewal"The End is Near
Three to four weeks till book launch. Editing is getting there – mostly just polishing now. I’m trying to place an article with a periodical right now in advance of the book that might help a little with publicity. Susan, a competent graphic designer, has created an incredible book cover that is just what I’d […]
Read more "The End is Near"A Captive to my Art
Well, it’s about like I’d said last time. I’m chained to the writing desk, trying to fulfill the commitment I’ve made to the few out there awaiting a book, a commitment to have a volume available during the month of March. To be honest though, I’m not even sure at this point when exactly The […]
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the dying fish 