Month: October 2012
Too Busy Living to Think About Dying, but maybe we should
I recently got reconnected to my midwife who delivered my children here at our home the base of Hawk Mountain. (Twenty years later, yet another Facebook success reuniting story). She was on her way to the North Lookout to watch soaring migrating birds and heal from a particularly sorrowful funeral … Continue Reading Too Busy Living to Think About Dying, but maybe we should
Fishing Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
The big oil freighter sails down the swollen Mississippi River at 20 knots, fast and wild as if it were a toy in the bath tub. “She’s from Greece,” my fishing guide, Ryan Lambert informs me, as we stare at the ten- foot high wake receding behind it. It separates the … Continue Reading Fishing Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
