From The Archives
When I stepped outside my cabin, the temperature was nearly -40F/C. My boots crunched and squeaked across the snow as I made my way to the woodpile. In one hand I held the butt of an axe that rested on my shoulder. In my other […]
From The Archives
Hello again.
The days pass, nearly every one of them with a story in it. Lately, an immature bald eagle has taken to hanging out on the property. Yesterday, from my living room window, I watched it take a sizeable lake trout from the water beside […]
When the sun is high and the sky is cloudless, the surface of the Caribbean Sea turns cobalt blue. But on this day off the coast of St. Lucia it was overcast and windy. Rain came and went in hesitant waves. The water’s surface was dark and moody.
We’d spent the […]
Very early one morning, Georgeann Hall woke her grown daughter in the adjacent bedroom of their weekend cabin in Wisconsin. She had just seen a black bear in the kitchen. Her daughter said she must have been dreaming. And Hall agreed, until she caught a glimpse of the bear opening […]
On this Yukon winter night, the distant headlights of an oncoming vehicle pierce the darkness in front of us. But for the occasional moose, those headlights have been the only sign of life along this stretch of the Alaska Highway in almost an hour. That is, except for Tom Randall […]
