Category Archives: Good Life
Snapper
When I was a senior in high school, I learned to fly fish with my dad in the mountains of North Carolina. We had a place up on Beech Mountain and I guess because A River Runs Through It just came out we had to do what every white guy it America was doing- big … Continue reading
Black Friday Gumbo: Thanksgiving Leftovers
Thanksgiving is a unique among holidays. Rivaled closely by Independence Day, by far the one I look forward to the most. Perhaps it’s the weather in North Carolina or the football we watch and play. I know it is the big one, with abundance of family and friends, just enough so you can all love … Continue reading
A Mountain Man’s Guide to a Shrimp Boil
The back of my neck and hands are red and burning, there are multiple layers of sunscreen in the creases of my ears, nose and into my hair that is wild and greasy. It got to where we never saw a point in showering proper because in an hour or so we’d be covered in shrimp … Continue reading
Rainy Day Painting
It was cold and rainy Saturday. My wife, Casey, and the three older boys took off in the early morning to an out of town AAU basketball game. Spending a day along with a two year old isn’t something I’ve done in awhile. We had a blast, we watched Curious George, we ate gold fish, … Continue reading
Ice Bucket Challenge: Bourbon Whisky
There will be people in Kentucky who chortle and snicker at this. If you are a Southerner, whisky is just something that is there like soul food, mosquitoes, and humidity. In college, we all mixed whisky in a Coke filled stadiumcup. When life got a little more sophisticated, maybe it was into a Presbyterian’s drink … Continue reading
Why I Sat Down and Wrote
To say the least I’m a right brain thinker: all that spacial reasoning, strong perceptual ability, my senses work well, I appreciate natural esthetics, yet mildly dyslexic, I have a hard time paying attention to things that I don’t want to. I hated school, I loved to learn– I never really read anything that was … Continue reading
Cheating: Golf Course Trout
I confess, I really wanted to title this post “Whorehouse Trout Fishing”. A few friends have a place in the mountains, they’re golfers. My usual M.O. for a golf weekend is to find out if there is a place to fish and do a bunch of cooking while the others guys are on the course. … Continue reading
Rekindling Old Pastimes: Oil Painting
Sometime ago, before I had this life– I had time to have a creative life. Sounds harsh, but before a family with four boys, a profession that occupies most of my days, and commitments that drain me before I drop dead into the sack– that life was about being musing and creation. I painted, I picked … Continue reading
Photo Journal: Wyoming Hike and Fish
Those mountains hang over me every time I see them– from the rowdy spiraling drop into the Jackson airport, as I unravel the line from my spool and thread guides on the back porch. The clouds drift over those jagged hills, shadows change and they remain there. They stand and beckon me with a senseless … Continue reading
Big Haint Blue 