Years pass, memories fade, old news clippings turn yellow and hair either turns white or falls out, such is life.
It has been many years ago but it is permanently etched into my memory.
I was preparing to transport an African spotted leopard to another location when quite suddenly I found myself flat on my back with [...]

I was born and raised on an island located on the Fox River that flows near Oswego, Illinois.
The Fox is a most beautiful river and somewhat unpredictable, very much like a beautiful woman.
She, the river, could go for years without showing her ugly side, without overflowing her banks; but when she did, surprise! Flood was [...]

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 [...]