Fireside Warmth
A Quiet Morning Prayer As I Stoke Up My Stove ********** Thank You Oh Lord For Each New Day I’m In For Each New Morning’s Fire And the Warmth It Provides Me ********** Until Our Trails Cross Again: May You All Be Kept Warm & Safe Through Winter’s Fireside...
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Adirondack
Author’s Note: I never know when or how a story or verse will arrive. They always seem to appear out of nowhere and catch me off guard. This poem originally came to me while I was standing in my kitchen making a big pot of wild turkey soup, which...
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Breathe
Author’s Note: I don’t consider myself a poet. I don’t seek them out. Sometimes, however, they still seem to find me. This one came in pieces, like fall’s falling leaves, on my last fall duck hunting trip of the season, up north to Middle Saranac Lake via South Creek....
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Baseball Dreams
Somewhere Out There Beyond All Worry And Strife Exists A parallel Universe Where Dreams Are Reality Where Baseball Is Life ***** Somewhere Out There Exists An Alternate World Where Imagination Sprints Onto The Field Where I’m Pitching Baseballs To The Roar Of The Crowd ***** Somewhere Beyond Anywhere Hometown...
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The Outlaw Way
“I SHALL LIVE OUT MY DAYS BEING TRUE TO MYSELF” ********** Until Our Trails Cross Again: ADKO...
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OUTLAWED
An Adirondack Outlaw’s Confession: Where Truth & Fiction Join Forces to Outwit the Law “Sometimes An Outlaw’s Best Hideout Is Right in Plain Sight” ********** Saranac Lake, New York – 1978: No one paid any attention to the slender blonde t-shirt clad teen walking casually down Woodruff Street,...
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Celebrating “Alive”
16 Years Ago, I Was Diagnosed Docs told me “It’s Cancer.” I Fought to Survive One Hard Year Later My Cancer Came Back Doc shook his head “It’s time to call Hospice.” I Refused to Just Die Back To the Wall, Only One Bullet Left “Salvage Surgery” They Called...
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One Night, Adirondack
Moonlight shot of Middle Saranac Lake. From the beach near the Plymouth Rock inlet. September 2021...
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The 5,000
CONGRATULATIONS TO ME! I JUST WENT OVER 5,000 VISITORS ON MY BLOG! It’s been a busy summer! Had a Backyard Wedding for Chelsea & Matt ********** Made Some Wild Turkey Soup ********** Did Some Bottle Diving ********** And A HOLE Lot Of Digging! ********** I’ll write mores stories soon....
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Back Yard Wedding Planner
June 4th, 2020 The Backyard Wedding Planner DAY ONE: A GOOD START! “OKAY… I CONFESS!” “I – Dick Monroe – Father of the Bride – have been planning my daughter Chelsea Rae’s backyard wedding since the day she was born.” I realize that this may not be quite the...
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