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“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people who want to be important.”— T.S. Eliot For the longest time I attributed this quote to the great Benjamin Disraeli, as it got stuck in my head that way … Continue reading →

Jim Fietzer, storyteller and friend, moved to Chattanooga a few years ago and I don’t see him enough. The last time I saw him we went paddling and stopped to get pie and hot cocoa on the way home, and … Continue reading →

I got up this mornin’Stumbled outta bedDrove to work on the BeltlineBut had a kayak in my headI got the bluuuuuesss….I got the Monday mornin’ paddlin’ bluuuuuuuessss…. Today was especially Mondayesque. Don’t know why, maybe it’s a lack of time … Continue reading →

Our new deck is nearing completion. We’ll get the railing on next week, so this was our last chance to trespass and get this shot. It goes without saying that I have the best staff in the world, but I … Continue reading →

My friend MK has a cool blog and she just posted a thing about weird signs found in the outdoors. I thought about a few good ones from the trip Ian and I took a few years ago. He’s a … Continue reading →

Gil was lonely and needed a friend. So Ian made a lobster. Ian did most of the welding. He’s getting pretty good at it.

“Yes…..the hate is swelling in you now. Take your PAC money. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you make yourself more my servant. Young fool, only now, … Continue reading →

“Compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to … Continue reading →

Bratfest is Madison’s carnivorous festival—190,000 brats were consumed last weekend. A disgusting thing if you think about it too much, so I suggest you don’t. We also took a few dozen boats over to the pond next to the Alliant … Continue reading →

We took the Memorial Day holiday opportunity to run the Upper Sugar (Hwy X to Hwy EE). Lovely paddle, and Ian paddled the Argosy the whole way, a good 15 miles or so. We called our friends Bill and Gail … Continue reading →