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One Life at a Time, Please
One Life at a Time, Please© 1988 Ed Abbey204 pages Ed Abbey’s final few years were spent in obsessive work, as he knew he was dying and wanted to make provisions for his family. The Fool’s Progress and One Life … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, anarchism, Edward Abbey, essays, Nature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Lost on Purpose
Lost on Purpose: The Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man© 2015 Patrick Taylor187 pages The real adventure for me was letting go of everything I had defined as important and conducting another experiment with my life. Lost on Purpose … Continue reading
Sean of the South and the Old Man’s Boy
Sean Dietrich and his wife Jamie’s collective world was shaken when their doctor said the C word. Cancer. The emperor of all maladies, the ticking timebomb in each of us. Rather than crumbling into a weeping ball of woe-is-me, … Continue reading
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Tagged American South, bicycles, humor, Of Boys and Men, Sean Dietrich, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Of cyclists, colonial Catholics, and crappy endings
Last weekend I stayed at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, there to be evaluated for admission to their kidney transplant list. Much of my downtime was spent (how else) reading. How Cycling Can Save the World is a straightforward argument … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged Africa, Catholicism, Colonial America, John Grisham, sports and outdoors
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The Lost Classics
The Lost Classics© ed. Jim Casada1950s-60s pieces by Robert Ruark from Field & Stream and other magazines260 pages A hunt for southern literature outside the Faulkner/O’Connor domain brought me to the happy surprise that was The Old Man and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, American South, Hemingway, Robert Ruark, sports and outdoors
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The Old Man and the Boy
The Old Man and the Boy© 1957 Robert Ruark303 pages Of the various titles on my Classics Club Strikes back list, The Old Man and the Boy is something of an outlier; I’d venture to say that most people haven’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910s, 1920s, Classics Club Strikes Back, Nature, Of Boys and Men, outdoors, Robert Ruark, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors
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Gun Guys
Gun Guys: A Road Trip © 2013 Dan Baum 353 pages Why do Americans love guns so much? Dan Baum knew why he loved them. He was the skinny misfit who was mocked and left behind at summer … Continue reading
American Rifle
American Rifle: A Biography © 2008 Alexander Rose 512 pages The quintessential American firearm is the rifle, which through centuries of colonization and growth, has served in both myth and fact. I use myth not in the modern disparaging sense, … Continue reading
The Courage to Start
The Courage to Start: A Guide to Running For Your Life © 1999 John Bingham 208 pages John Bingham loved running as a kid. He wasn’t any good at it – he flailed his arms and wouldn’t impress any stopwatch-yielding … Continue reading
Two books on deer
Two friends of mine have deer who visit their yard on a regular basis. The does happily tolerate my friends’ presence in the yard, as they’re picking up sticks or watering the flowers. If, however, my friends have guests, and … Continue reading