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The trouble with using a four-foot-long word is you risk sounding ostentatious. (See what I mean?) I’ve tried to argue that we should learn more and bigger words, but I’ve been trounced by smarter people and I surrender. But I must make one final jab at the editors and readers who have not humored me.…

Perhaps you are out there somewhere, but among my acquaintances, I can count on one hand the people who are simultaneously journal-keepers and male. Every now and then when The Wags stand around the barbecue pit on Father’s day, I like to imagine everybody sitting down with a tablet, pen, and cup of Earl Grey…

There is something to be said for form, and it would be out of form to paddle a Cedar canoe with a plastic paddle. Does not even nature teach you this? It would be like wearing rubber boots to a cathedral.  I call my brother who has access to cabinet-grade lumber, and he sends me…

“If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. [they are] full of strange promise and the hint of trouble.” —E.B. White Somehow, and no one knows how this happened, I married a wife who developed a love for the river and fishing. When…