fly fishing 8

I’d always wondered what woodland flowers had to do with morels and fishing. I’d also marveled about how robins knew when to return north or questioned why certain mayfly imitations…

There are many surprising things about getting older. As I sit on the cusp of my late thirties, staring at that blinking cultural landmark a few years down the road,…

And then comes the last kayak, plenty buoyant, and in it a beauty contestant in minimal black swimwear.

I called him by the name I thought he deserved to be called by.

Finding myself 2000 miles from Montana but with a couple of boys who want to go fishing, we ventured into the brown waters of the Shenandoah River. This is, according…

The vacation, far from being a treatment for a serious illness, is instead a symptom of it.

"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.

Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?