Last weekend I attended the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association annual awards conference along with my fiancée Donna Rai’ and my friend Brad Isles, who is a fellow writer and member of the organization and designer of this Web site. … Continue reading
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It’s a sunny, cold Tuesday afternoon in February, and I’m out for a rare winter hike along the Shenango Trail. I pull in at New Hamburg, four miles upstream from Big Bend, and see not a single tire track in … Continue reading
It was 12 degrees out there, according to my Jeep Cherokee temperature gauge, when we pulled into the Warren County game lands parking lot at 6:30 a.m. on the last Thursday of deer season. A fresh six inches of powdery … Continue reading
I just found out recently that I won the Bass Pro Shops “Pass It On Award,” which is, according to the press release, “given annually to an active Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association member for the best published newspaper or … Continue reading
Be on the lookout for the upcoming December issue of Pennsylvania Game News for a deer-hunting article I wrote for the magazine. The title is “Opening Day in the Big Woods,” and it’s a story of the classic opening … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I took my 54-caliber in-line muzzleloader for a walk in the late-October Warren County forest. I wasn’t really serious about hunting that day, to be honest. I’m not an archery hunter, and October seems way … Continue reading
It’s my birthday, and Donna Rai’ and I will celebrate tomorrow with a hiking excursion down at McConnell’s Mill, one of the most remarkable natural settings in western Pennsylvania. I’m looking forward to a challenging side-hill hike from the … Continue reading
It’s mid-July, and the weather is hot, hot, hot and dry, dry, dry. We’ve had so little rain the past month that the small wild trout streams in Warren County that I love so much are dangerously low, putting … Continue reading
A weekday trip to the mountains can be a rewarding and healing experience, even when you only get away for one day. Such was the case last week when I drove up alone to cut grass and work on the … Continue reading
The big news lately is that we sold my little brick cottage in the woods, the one I lived in alone before Donna Rai’ and I moved to Sharon, in one day, a remarkable feat since real estate in … Continue reading