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Murdered While White
Renee Good was murdered because she was white. Bear with me for a moment before I explain that statement. There is still a good deal of confusion and unknowns about the sequence of events that put her onto a Minneapolis…
A Humbling Experience and Kindness to Strangers
The year 2026 has not started well. An act of war and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan President. Seizure of tankers on the open ocean. More death and destruction in Ukraine. Threats to take over Greenland. Warnings of another war…
Britannia and the End of Empire
Chris Hedges just published a new post on how the decline and fall of the British Empire is a cautionary tale for the United States and its collapsing empire. The parallels are all there. Eugenics; keeping out the ‘fuzzy-wuzzies’; complaints…
Sixteen
Oliver turns 16 today. I have to admit I didn’t think we’d be celebrating this birthday. But I’m quite pleased we have had him with us for another year. Quite an achievement for an Aussie. Mini Australian Shepherds like him…
Windy Two-Handed Practice
Mid to late October marks the start of winter storms in the Northwest. Deep lows in the Gulf of Alaska move south and bring cold wind and rain – with winds sufficient to cause power outages across Puget Sound. This…
Autumn Splendor
The corner house on the next block has this tree. It’s why Autumn is my favorite season; even on a cloudy day, the colors are so rich.
Two-Handed Casting Lesson
After having practiced some single-hand Spey casting over the last two months, I decided I wanted to jump in with both feet and take up casting a two-handed rod – the very symbol of Spey casting. But I decided it…
May the Fair Wind Blow
Robert Redford died on Tuesday at 89. The movies that he acted in and directed have left their marks on me – with their themes of the environment and nature, friendship, loyalty, and loss – to those times and places…
Single-Hand Spey
I’m referring to single-hand spey casting. Spey casting is typically assumed to involve the use of a two-handed fly rod (12 – 14 feet) to cast for salmon and steelhead. Or, more recently, spey rods have been sized down (11…
Fly Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci
What kind of fly-fishing guide would Leonardo Da Vinci be? That’s the premise of “Fly Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci” by David Ladensohn. But this is no reverie by an author, wondering what fly Leonardo might suggest. The book is…
