I don’t watch baseball, but I do know that a baseball bat is supposed to be used in the game of baseball to hit the ball thrown by the pitcher. This is an open letter of sorts to the driver and his passenger who used a baseball bat to take […]
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I went into my closet Friday morning and looked at my collection of clothes. There were the button down white shirts, the blue shirts, and the grey shirts. All are long-sleeved and all are dress shirts (I even have one that is pink and another that is beige). I have […]
By all rights, I’m not a very talented person athletically. There’s a reason, after all, that I’m writing about the four major sports instead of playing them, although I did play a year of soccer in high school and I am “somewhat passable” at swinging a golf club. And my […]
When I was young and out trick-or-treating, there were a dozen homes in the neighbourhood we would make sure to stop at. Mrs. Newman on Second Street always made the very best candy popcorn balls while Mrs. Skinner had the shiniest red candy-coated apples. And there were other mothers in […]
This is one of those weeks when I’ve had to apply “Rule 21.” It’s a directive I invented—and one I have to fall back on now and then when it appears I have nothing to write about. It is a flexible rule that varies in regulation and content, depending on […]
“Suck for Luck” and “Fail for Nail.” No, these aren’t the names of newly-formed alternative rock bands who will be preforming on the Warped Tour next year. They are, in fact, the rallying cries for fans of teams that currently are languishing at the bottom of the NFL and NHL […]
Now that the fishing season has pretty much wrapped up for me, I’m on to my second favourite thing to do in the outdoors—chasing whitetail deer around. I will do a little bit of guiding and spend a pile of time in the woods over the course of the next […]
I walked into the living room and there he was—a perpetual giggling ball of somersaults recoiling back and forth across the length of the couch. The remaining three little peppers stood about in “jaw drop and stun” mode—clearly amazed as the little whippersnapper rotated in an orbit oblivious to the […]
For a month-and-a-half, I’ve been negligent in attending to my yard. I have used the excuses that Marnie and I were travelling, that the great weekends should be spent at the cabin, and, the best of all, it is getting dark too early. I suspect my neighbours have been wondering […]
No matter what the product, whether we’re talking about cars, stereos, computers, or hockey sticks, there’s always the best of the best. Usually these high-end products are the most technologically advanced—and the most expensive. In fishing, there are super high-end products in every category, whether you want to talk about […]
In most circumstances, a 3-4 season in high school football would be considered a disappointment. Heck, if this was the cut-throat world of Texas high school football, a coach more than likely would be fired following the first game of the season if his team was soundly blanked in their […]
I was standing in line at the bank the other day, clueless to the world around me. I was fidgeting with my wallet and the ever-growing stash of old receipts and slips of paper in the coin purse. Some of those little notes contained chicken scratch ideas for my column […]
