Outhouse Camp August 2025

Outhouse Camp August 2025

My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...

Because I Can

When I was a child  I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up, when I  could do whatever I wanted to. I could have cake and ice-cream for breakfast!      
Good Morning

Good Morning

    9/18/25 6:30 54F (12.2C) Another calm,  dark morning. The waning moon pokes its horns through the maple leaves. The sky dances with color. Morning ascends as twilight loses its grip on the night and slips away.            ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    9/17/25 6:30 53F (11.6C) A lone crow, voice raw and cracking, flys north across the empty vault . The east begins to lighten, first a brilliant blue, brighter than the rest of the sky, changing hue, lavender, orange, yellow, before blending into a...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/16/25 7:00 50F (10C) I look up into the pale blue sky. There is no wind. Birds are chattering,  dogs bark. There are cars moving this morning; tires whirring and the burble of muffled exhaust announce their passing. I slept well last night and...