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Thoughts on some complexities of adulting handed out in disjointed form by a middle-aged nobody.
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Death by any other name
A call to speak and write with humility
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The Volunteer
Sheer botanical audacity
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Woodland lullaby
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What has been will be again
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Who we always were: the girl next door
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Blood and water
If you’re looking for an argument as to “why” I catch and release fish that paints me as fishing for anything other than a dim attempt to fill my empty…
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Come visit at the Buffalo River Elk Festival
I'll be peddlin' books and whittlin' with my Old Timer (not a euphemism, I'm referring to my pocket knife) between sales at the Buffalo River Elk…
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Money for nuthin'
Damn these rigid principles always gnawing at my peace
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The old man in my life
Rudy is 10 years old today and has turned into quite the curmudgeon. Truly, he has reached a level of crustiness, a “get off my lawn/turn that damn…
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The wild wide open
A short story about marriage, the slow but sure domestication of a once impulsive couple, and their glimpse of the vagabond life
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Propositions at dawn
I want food. He wants sex. We’ve been negotiating a swap since his first advertisement, which was about 40 minutes before sunup. Of course, I can’t give…
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Pray for rain
Johnny Sain remains one of the greatest tactical minds to ever don a major-league uniform. He is also the reason I use my middle name for anything that…
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Fruiting bodies
Up until this week, I could best describe my writing workflow style as “fungal.” Ideas crept and branched through the deep dark folds of my brain…
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Woodland lullaby
Winter draws to an early close in the South. The first spring beauties, a tiny, exquisite, and appropriately named wildflower, pop up in my yard in late…
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American Pokeweed
American Pokeweed
Rough-hewn ponderings on wood smoke, fried squirrel, dirt roads, creek water, generational curses, and living in the Anthropocene
Recommendations
Appetites
Appetites
Jenna Rozelle
FishRise by Richard Wilson
FishRise by Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson
Dispatches from a Trout Wrangler
Dispatches from a Trout Wrangler
Tom Sadler
Outdoor Politics
Outdoor Politics
Tom Sadler
Podcasts
The National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast
The Orianne Society's Snake Talk
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast
Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast
Work Published Elsewhere
Back in the Saddle: Ride with Clyde
Published in The Drake magazine
This Little Piggy Went to Market
Published in the Food and Environment Reporting Network
Work of the Quiet Mountains
Published in the Bitter Southerner
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Hidden in the Tall Grass
Essays on rural and natural heritage

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