by svsauthor | Sep 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Every other year my extended family (i.e., mom, brother, two sisters, and spouses) takes a vacation together. Last winter I’d organized a fall trip to Yellowstone, but then cancelled all of the reservations because Mammoth and the Lamar Valley, the two park...
by svsauthor | Sep 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
I have friends on the West Coast who have yet to meet Manyu or Clare. They know of my wife and daughter through emails and phone calls from me, but they do not have a true sense of the life I now live. A few days ago I received an email from one of these old friends,...
by svsauthor | Sep 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
For the past month, there has been lots of broken glass along my usual bike route. It’s late summer with more outside drinking and more jerks tossing empties out of car windows. As hard as I try to avoid anything that might puncture a tire, I got a flat tire three...
by svsauthor | Sep 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
The way Buzz tells it, he knew what I was going to say the moment I called him by name. He and I were fishing the Reno Bottoms, a secluded section of Mississippi River backwater just south of Brownsville, Minnesota. Buzz was in his kayak, I was in mine, and we were...
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