This was a trip Mary and I made in 2015.  The write-up was done for OzarkAnglers forums.  It's one of a number of old stories I'll b...

 When I was a kid, I knew nothing about brown recluses.  It's no wonder; this spider wasn't described scientifically until 1940 (mea...

I encountered my first black widow spider when I was about seven years old. The house where I grew up in Missouri had a basement that only ...

Note:  Here is another of my early illustrated articles for the River Hills Traveler.  The illustration was one of my favorites.  I've h...

Many years ago, when I was a very young adult, I belonged to a local bass fishing club.  This was in the early days of bass fishing tourname...

Note:   I graduated from college in the spring of 1976, and got a job teaching art that same fall. At the time I was living in Jackson, MO, ...