I love raisins, always have.
I could work up a serious drool just thinking about raisins and nobody had to worry about me abusing drugs but they better hide the raisins.
In that far off, mythical region called, “The brain” I have always believed that anything fit to eat must have raisins in it. Take oatmeal for [...]

Many years ago, (I was an old man of fifteen or sixteen at the time,) in the child labor period of my life, I worked in a slaughter house for an eternity of about one month. (It was possibly less but I am certain it was not more.)
I suppose for some of us certain sights, [...]

It was a bitterly cold, overcast winter day when I set out from our cabin located below Oswego Illinois on one of the many islands on the Fox River to check my traps.
Walking cautiously on the new ice I followed my trap line chopping out and retrieving those traps that had frozen into the ice.
I [...]

I don’t remember what color the dog was or its breed, or even its precise size. What I do seem to remember is that it was a boy dog and I will not go into details as to how I arrived at that conclusion.
Yes, size, color, breed, all seem to blur in that Cro-Magnon era [...]

I didn’t see the alligator. All of my attention was on the group of wood storks that were fishing in the canal.
I wanted to get a little closer. Moving quietly so as not to disturb the birds that I wanted to photograph, I swung my leg over the large deadfall log and promptly forgot all [...]

Keep in mind that this brief comment is written in Cattese, the intricate language of all cats . Can you decipher it?
“Ni ym noinipo siht si eht tseb denrad golb erehwyna dna fi ouy erad ot yas esiwrehto ll’i hctarcs rouy seye tuo! Ym ssob si a lufrednow namuh dna eh diap em ot yas [...]

Greetings to all of you trash talkers out there, the Reborn River Rat Here again,
Glory and Hallelujah, all is not lost!
Nan and I were on our way to church the other day following a late model Mazda pick up truck with two young men in it.
As we approached a traffic light the driver attempted to [...]

I would like to share a bit of my book, GARLOO’S, TALES OF THE GENTLE WIND with you, please let me know what you think.
Featuring characters created by Charles Towne as told by Garloo, a nice gopher turtle that lives in a very cozy burrow located in Wood-N-Dale, near the Wekiwa river which is called [...]

Hey, all of you trash talkers out there! This is the River Rat here and you’re going to love this.
Recently I was back in the woods scouting wild animal trails for places to set up camera blinds when lo and behold there in front of me was the sign of the greater trasher, or, Trashus [...]

My occupation as a small boy and eventually a zoo director and my more recent relationship with bears has given opportunity for many encounters with interesting denizens, both animal, human and otherwise.
Recently I had the opportunity to provide the black bear footage for a T.V. series featuring the wild places of central Florida. While questioning [...]