FEATURES COLUMNS
Rick's List
Ours is an age when absolutely nothing is left to the imagination. And whatever isn’t left to the imagination is nearing intellectual extinction. In the near future, I suspect, we’ll all watch and hear the real-time thoughts at the exact moment some modern day Kapteyn puts 2+2...
Learning from our mistakes — sort of
While rolling a wheelbarrow full of logs down a path behind our house the other day, I slammed into a jutting rock and the whole load toppled into the mud.
Rick's List — Holiday Tree-Lighting Edition
I'm a bit suspicious of anyone who'd voluntarily say, "(So and so's) not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree." Sorta hackneyed, right? You might as well say, "I'm not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, so I'm the sorta guy who'd actually say, '(So and so's) not the brightest...
Catching sight of evening grosbeaks
Like the last of the yellow leaves on the paper birch, the evening grosbeaks fell one by one from the naked branches reaching over the muddy road before me.
Cutting trees to restore the Hoffman Preserve
Plans are underway for a forest management program that calls for carefully planned, significant tree-cutting at Stonington's 198-acre Hoffman Preserve.
Rick's List — Black Friday Wrap-Up Edition
Here are some hard things to do: 1. Ascend Mount Everest with no bottled oxygen, wearing KISS-style platforms and sipping from a quart of cheap tequila 2. That whole "be a Navy SEAL" thing 3. Black Friday shopping 4. Single-handedly eliminate an entire thriving...
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Natchaug River rapids: Full of sound and fury
At that moment, my plotting consisted of looking for a way to carry my kayak around a gut-clenching plunge.
Rick's List — Self-Makeover Edition
"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me." — Johann Gottlieb Fichte I recently saw an episode of "Queer Eye," an updated version, with a new cast, of the iconic "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" program that ran...
Steve’s Leaf Collection Service
I cleared a lawn of leaves using a rake faster than a man armed with a leaf blower.
Fake presents! (and real ones) — you decide
It’s that time of year to shop for that special adventurer in your life.
Rick's List — "I'd rather be ..." Edition
I'm glad I got out of the youthful habit of affixing bumper stickers to cars because, idling at stop lights behind folks who enjoy applying bumper stickers to their own vehicles, I find myself typically thinking, "Boy, THAT'S an idiot." I...
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