I think I’ve heard at least half the deer I’ve shot before I saw them. The walking cadence, the snap of a twig or even brushing against grass gave them away. It’s important to be listening and attentive in the deer woods. However, there is more listening to be done than just trying to …
Blood Pressure Maintenance
Our next presidential election is five seasons away but it seems that it’s always the political season. And in the political season, there are lots of potential situations where we can find ourselves getting into debates, whether we seek them out or they find us. Most of us would like to keep goodwill …
Map and Compass
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it". Edmund Burke Edmund Burke, the great conservative thinker, believed that prudence is the first among virtues. He also said that we are dwarves on the shoulders of giants. Burke's conservatism was temperamental and not ideological. He was advising us that almost everything we face is …
On Dying Young
Within the last year, I lost a childhood friend. He died a middle aged man of "old people" causes, perhaps brought on by lifestyle choices. He was a star athlete in high school and college. A beast of a man. If anyone was indestructible it was him. More recently, I lost a brother-in-law who died …
reflections of a flawed man 