Rock Creek While in the trailer last week, I had finished the recent volume by Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, then by happenstance “my friends at BCGEU” in Canada had given me a copy of the recently published The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account …
Category: Personal Writings
All Quiet on the Western Front
Rock Creek After days of preparation, days of celebration, solidarity, and fellowship with people hustling, cooking, eating, playing, swimming, fishing, hiking, and just kicking back and relaxing, reading, napping, and talking suddenly all of our friends and comrades and some of our family had begun the long journeys back to work and home, and there was …
Singing by the Campfire
Rock Creek One of the great surprises of the end of a fantastic meal of flank steak, kale, salad, and couscous, was the singing around the campfire as the bigger logs started to burn. Dan Russell, my old friend from high school and Springfield College professor for the last 30 plus years, turns out …