I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life