I went down to fish this morning at Purdy, which is about 2.3 miles from my house. Purdy is an unincorporated area that has a small bridge over a lagoon that leads to a nearby creek that is a salmon…

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Traffic today is getting worse on the highways as people head off to wherever. The weather this weekend feels more like March (cool and wet) than late spring/early summer. Big-box stores are advertising their holiday weekend…

I have been reluctant to write anything about the racist slaughter in Buffalo New York, where ten people, most of them black Americans, were murdered by a young white racist; or last week’s massacre of 19 children and two teachers…

Today is Memorial Day. Memorial Day has its roots in a time before the American Civil War. Families in the rural south conducted religious services and picnics in family graveyards, where the graves were decorated with flowers. The first ceremony…