It was my birthday, and as I’d promised myself, there I was on the mighty South Holston River. The Holston is by far my favorite river to fish in the SouthEast, and I was excited to be there. I knew that all around me, there were trout. Large Trout. Thousands of them. Long ago, the …
The first thing you need to understand is that it hasn’t been easy. It has been quick. It has been exciting. But easy wouldn’t be the correct way to describe it all. I can say this – I was tired. Tired of being fat. Tired of having anxiety attacks because I knew I could have …
I wrote this post on Christmas Night, 2005. Over the years, I’ve written many things, and some have been read by a great many people and some by very few. This one in particular has seemed to make folks pretty happy and gotten read and passed around over the years and I try to make …
Often, I find myself reading different lists of must have items for people. I find them rather interesting, and take joy in seeing if the things I find essential to my day to day operations is similar to those of famous people or political figures. Usually, they aren’t. Still, I thought it might be fun …