subvenire

For Christmas, Diana handed me a gift certificate to have a leather belt made at Phillip Sparks. Her son, Tom, works there part time and...

When my son was still a teenager, his friend’s girlfriend did a tattoo on his arm. She was learning and so it was free. It looked like...

My daughter Lauren sent me a cookbook for Christmas, which has become somewhat of a tradition the past few years. Darren has sent some...

When the company I had worked with for twenty-six years was sold, I committed to support the regulatory approval process until the...

My relationship with steelhead fishing is complicated. I’m not alone. Even biologists find steelhead perplexing. Debate continues about...

Call it what you will, but on every platform, app or device there seems to be a way to call attention to something. A shortcut that makes...

Memory embraces both occasion and emotion. An event solely defined by the setting, the characters and the action, is largely unremarkable...

I met Bill Harper in July 2007 on the Tree River in Nunavut, way the hell up north in Canada above the Arctic Circle. I couldn’t possibly...

I can’t remember a time when I haven’t owned a bicycle although I’d be hard-pressed to list them all. A few do stand out in my memory....

The dome of cloud cover was thin enough that you could just make out the general position of the moon, now one day past full. There was a...

Fly fishing out of New Orleans is a peculiar blend of city and country. Staying in town you find yourself walking Bourbon Street with a...

Remarks for the Victoria International Film Festival “How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you...

Interesting and unpredictable things can happen at the edge of where one thing ends and another begins. Sometimes this border is clear...

When I try to extract lessons from fly fishing that apply to my life, one that most often comes to mind, is that no matter how confident...

When a top executive is getting pushed out, metaphorically “pursuing other interests”, it’s often with the soft landing of a golden...

That's my advice. They have learned that mastery comes through repetition. They know the value of failure. Nobody perfects a trick on the...

I was raised in a household of photographers. My father was infamous for his Sunday night picture shows. Squares of Kodachrome slides...

Attribution is important. I believe in giving credit where credit is due. Acknowledging the creator as my source. When I find a quote, I...

Although they are both temporary states, I still draw a distinction between a traveller and a tourist. One is making a journey to be...

Sure, there's some pictures of fish in here...some awesome fish...but they are the delightful byproduct of adventure and not necessarily...