THE POND IN THE WOODS |
The Pond in the Woods - A Parable:There is a pond in the woods. It is a small pond by most standards, about an acre in size, and it is nothing special with a muddy bottom and no adjoining creek. But b...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:49:00 GMT |
Wrapping it Up |
Last day of March, 2010 Sometimes you wonder if its all worth the effort. Late nights, early mornings, long days; youve been burning the candle at both ends and in the middle for so long now the fla...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:46:00 GMT |
Man of the House |
It was a cold one. We kids were hunkered down inside, it was too cold to ride sleds or play in the woods. Dad made the extra effort to get outside and bring in plenty of wood to keep the little A-fram...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:03:00 GMT |
A Walk in the Snow |
We went for a walk, Dad, me, and the girls. It had snowed more or less steadily for a few days and a foot of powder made a pristine white blanket that hushed noises and covered all but the biggest of ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:27:00 GMT |
FROG TOWN SLED RIDE |
A "Brief" History of Four-Wheeling in Frog TownIt was a typical Thursday night in the late autumn in southwestern Ohio. Not too cold, no rain for a week, the leaves already fallen. A harvest moon set...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:27:00 GMT |
The T-building |
We couldnt get much done today after it rained and the ground was muddy. We were to continue sampling a former landfills groundwater. But not allowed to leave ruts, we were limited in where we could...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:52:00 GMT |
GOVERNMENT WORKERS and LIGHT BULBS |
As I sat in the conference room during a training session ordered by our corporate entity, my mind did what it tends to do in the early afternoon after a brownbag lunch. It wandered. To keep from lis...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:11:00 GMT |
LOST ON THE LAKES |
The north wind a-rollingThe dark and the deepThe salmon have runAway to the creeksThe marshes freeze earlyThe fowl fly awayLeaving the silentLost on the LakesThe women and childrenA kiss on their chee...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 04:50:00 GMT |
The Burrow |
We have been burrowing for millennia. Its the only way to live, the only way to maintain social structure and normalcy. We pass along stories of the world outside the soil, but these seem far-fetch...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:25:00 GMT |
WRECKED |
I havent thought about this story in years, but thought Id get it down before it faded completely from memory. The following account is purely myth and totally fictional. I doubt it actually happe...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:42:00 GMT |
