Springcreekland —by Joe Scheidler

In early January, rainfall in California led to historic flooding as storm systems lined up across the Pacific and brought wave after wave o...

The call came after dark on a cold and rainy November evening: there was a road-killed deer south of town, ours for the taking. When we arri...

We are driving 650 miles north, to a cabin in the Algoma wilderness. For 23 years it’s been our escape from the routine, a place of solitude...

Everyone enjoyed the great autumn colors this year and for obvious reasons— they were rather spectacular. At our place a bald cypress in the...

In late summer, to celebrate my wife’s 70th birthday, our sons offered to buy her an electric bike, and I, not wanting to be left out, decid...

There’s a heavy mist rising from the pond this morning. A pair of geese, barely visible, send ripples across the surface. The northern hemis...

I  first met Dr Charles M Kirkpatrick a couple years after I graduated high school.  I was at Purdue for a day on campus, registering for cl...