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Creative friction
Do you remember the callus?
Dec 2, 2025
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Henpecked
Nothing but trees—oak, black gum, and hickory all ablaze in color—surround the highway on both sides.
Oct 27, 2025
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No press is good press
It’s best for everyone if we in the fly-fishing media keep our focus on trout
Oct 8, 2025
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Stories of a god become man
Meditations on Jesus, empathy, and what it means to follow Him
Sep 15, 2025
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Waiting with September
I am not the only restless soul
Sep 4, 2025
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Along the grain
Feb 25, 2025
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Remember
Jun 24, 2025
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Ockham's opossum
Feb 11, 2025
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Just beyond the porch light
Jan 2, 2025
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Hidden in the Tall Grass
“Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” ~ Nicolas Malebranche
Aug 19, 2025
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Coexistence
How to get along with the neighbors
Jul 29, 2025
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Remember
Resistance comes in many forms
Jun 24, 2025
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Neosho
The wild beings peculiar to a place transcend blood, bone, soil, and sap.
May 21, 2025
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Pressure systems
Part One
May 6, 2025
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Propositions at dawn
I want food. He wants sex.
Apr 16, 2025
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Serpentine
The shady grove with its soft mattress of pine needles is awfully inviting after a morning of creek bassin’.
Mar 26, 2025
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Along the grain
Contemplations from the woodshed
Feb 25, 2025
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Ockham's opossum
Marsupial genitalia and other complex subjects
Feb 11, 2025
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J. Carrol Sain
Rough-hewn ponderings on woodsmoke, fried squirrel, dirt roads, creek water, generational curses, and living in the Anthropocene
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Book of collected essays
Hidden in the Tall Grass
Essays on rural and natural heritage
Podcasts
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Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast
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Work Published Elsewhere
Back in the Saddle: Ride with Clyde
Published in The Drake magazine
This Little Piggy Went to Market
Published in the Food and Environment Reporting Network
Work of the Quiet Mountains
Published in the Bitter Southerner
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