Opinion

I was reminded the other day about a bow hunt I took with my son several years ago. I remember it because it was a rare thing for him to be able to go. Since he was a little boy, he loved basketball and got to be pretty good.

The October wind howled outside, snapping brittle, brown leaves from trees and sending them plummeting to the frigid ground. Sunlight ended soon after supper; the dreariness of near-winter was setting in. I decided to go to bed early.

What I do requires me to travel. I’m not sure how many days I’m gone from home, but it’s quite a few. If my trip is ten hours or less, I prefer to drive. Driving lets me pack my truck with as much gear as possible.

Reading the headline for this column, you are probably wondering what in the world are “nasal intrusions”. We are actually talking about just how far the police and their drug-sniffing canine companions can go when searching an automobile and its occupants for drugs without violating the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. It is pertinent…

When God created Mankind, he knew we’d need the basics. Food. Water. Shelter. He provided a lush garden to meet those needs. Then Adam took a nap, Eve was added to Eden, and Paradise was complete.

In my hometown, the Village is in the process of building two roundabouts to reduce congestion on a heavily traveled highway. My first reaction to this news was a negative one, based on my own two bad experiences with roundabouts—first in 1959 in Mexico City where there were way too many “macho” types in the…

As of this weekend, deer season is officially open in every state. I already feel like I’m behind because I have yet to go. I hope to change that tomorrow. I’ll hunt but not because I have located a good buck, but because I just need to sit with my thoughts in a tree stand…

It’s not that I hate people. I am one. I live in a world of them. I still coo at babies and treat my elders with respect. But there is one group of people who annoy me. They share only one common trait: they walk in front of my car.

On Sept. 3, Vernon Pattan, age 72, was driving a small tractor in northwest Arkansas when he was attacked by a black bear and later died as a result of his injuries. This attack was somewhat puzzling because Pattan was on the tractor mowing when the attack occurred; he had not deliberately provoked the attack.…

I have hunted big game most of my adult life. I have written about my experiences over 20 years. Those experiences are not spectacular. Most of them have come in random places at random times, and without the resources to make them anything special. That is, I have only paid for one hunt but have…