by svsauthor | Oct 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the topic of this week’s blog entry, I have two options. I could write about the dead fox in my garage, or I could write about my mom’s birthday party. On the off chance that someone from my family might actually look at my website, I thought it better to write...
by svsauthor | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every October I Skype with a class of graduate students from Western Carolina University. My book Rediscovering Dewey is required reading for their course, and the instructor welcomes the chance for his students to have a conversation with the author. Before our...
by svsauthor | Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Manyu’s friend Shu is back in China to visit her elderly parents, so her husband Stefan is on his own for a couple of months. On Wednesday we had him over for dinner. Manyu fried up fresh bluegill fillets and made a beef stew in her multipurpose rice cooker. After...
by svsauthor | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Upper Mississippi River is not as muddy as some people think. If the surface of the water is calm, I can usually see down four or five feet. Even then, any lack of clarity is due more to organic matter than to mud. I assume that downstream of its confluence with...
by svsauthor | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
I have written in various essays that I don’t have to catch fish to enjoy fishing. That is a true statement. I have fun on fishing trips where I never find the fish. I have places on the river I call my secret fishing spots, secret not because they guarantee fish, but...
by svsauthor | Sep 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
In July and August I did not get on the Mississippi River even once. I walked along the river almost every day, but never put a boat in the water. Last Wednesday I finally went fishing from my canoe and, with the first cast, wondered why I’d waited so long. I...
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