Christmas comes each year to draw people in from the cold.
Like tiny frightened sparrows, shivering in the winter cold, many live their lives on the barren branches of heartbreak, disappointment, and loneliness, lost in the thoughts of shame, self pity, guilt, or failure.  One blustery day follows another, and the only company they keep is [...]

This is my brother Randy and his grandson Seth. Randy is an extrovert who loves crowds and people. He’s been a county commissioner here in Monroe, doesn’t mind speaking in public, and is generally a very outgoing guy. But come November a sort of metamorphosis comes over him, as he heads to [...]

This nice 8-pointer above my fireplace wants to wish you a Merry Christmas.  It would of been nice if one of his relatives would of cooperated with me this year, but hey, at least we got some good tracking snow on the ground now.
My 4 year old granddaughter (Ava Taylor) likes to take pictures with [...]

Your first deer is always special, especially in my case.  I hunted, with a bow, for over ten years without putting anything in the freezer.  It wasn’t that I was a bad shot, as I took my share of trophies at local archery shoots.  The problem was “buck fever!”  If the target was made [...]

Talk about pictures from the past. That’s me in the middle and my army buddies Alroy Strand (L) and Roger Heesch.(R) We served in the 16th. Engineer Battalion stationed at Fort Hood Texas. Alroy was from Minnesota and we both like to hunt and fish. He told me stories about Rainy [...]

As you can see I’m the offical turkey carver in our family.  We held Thanksgiving over at my oldest daughter Tara’s place.  They have enough room to accommodate the clan that was present.  There were only 18 of us this year, as my son and his fiancee were sick, and my daughter Meghan, her husband, [...]