Have you ever eaten a worm?
 
Worms to my way of thinking aren’t really all that appetizing.  It is not so much the flavor as it is the texture.  They, the worms, should never be chewed.  They are gritty when chewed.  They must be swallowed whole, like spaghetti.   
 
Fish on the other hand have a [...]

Soft fluffy snow mantled the ground like a comforter ‘prized of innumerable downy feathers to a depth of two inches.  Thick, dark clouds scudded across the sky, at times obscuring the moon and dipping the woodscape into an inkwell of abysmal darkness.
 
My father had not told me where we were going but I follow this [...]

Once while paddling a canoe on the Wekiva River in central Florida I drifted around a bend and surprised a daydreaming bear as he sat drowsily on the riverbank with his eyes closed.
The bear was totally oblivious of my presence and there we were, no more than ten or fifteen feet apart when he opened [...]

I am drawn back to that rocky shore on Rosseau lake in Canada. I sat there, relaxed yearning for something, perhaps to hear the voice of God?
God, how much I wanted to hear your voice, to feel your presence, but… there was nothing, only silence.
Oh yes, there was the sun on my face, and shimmering, [...]

A little acorn fell to the ground one day and lay there. Oh how it bemoaned its fate. It could go no lower. It had reached the very depths of despair.
A squirrel, scavenging for food, found the little acorn and picked it up and the acorn thought to itself, “WHOOPEE, I am saved; no longer [...]

“Listen, did you hear that? I am sure I heard a bell. Yes, a tinkling bell!”
And so a search might began, a frenzied search to discover the source of that lonely sound.
Many years ago In a bygone era before the embalming process was practiced it was the customary to dig up the remains of the [...]

SHADES OF THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG
By
Charles Towne
For those of you who have never read the cult classic, ‘THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG’ by Edward Abbey, do yourself a favor and beg, borrow or hi-jack a copy, you’ll love it.
It has been some twenty years ago when I was hiking way back on a large parcel of [...]

You never know what you might see. This is a once in a lifetime bit of footage. I had been sitting next to the bear trail when the diamondback, about three feet long crawled into sight. It laid there for awhile next to the log and was in the process of crawling away when this [...]