Journal of an Obsessive Paddler

Thank you to everyone who dreamed, fought and sacrificed for our freedom. Happy anniversary United States of America!

iPad + 5000 songs + TDK monster digital boom box = awesome music rattling the rafters. Can you hear me now?

Pat with left overs in front of Lonnie Ray's All-American Grill and Cafe in the metropolis of Harrisburg, which is my pick for the b...

I euthanized a big, old, ailing red cedar tree last weekend. Our chickens liked to hide under this tree from my dog Mr. Bojangles. Now, ...

Music week: Tab Benoit regaled the crowd with his guitar at the Blue Note last Thursday night, followed by Willie Nelson's Country Throw...

Sushi for supper! We have had so much rain that central MO has struggled with flooding all spring. Apparently this gar ended up high  and ...

While at Earth University in Costa Rica, we had a mango tree planted in their Hope Forest to commemorate Claire's two semesters the...