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GOOD READS: GREAT PLAINS
It is, apparently, World Book Day, so I thought, in the absence of something more substantial to offer, I’d simply highlight a good book, and this is…
 • Chad Love
THREE DAYS LOAFING ACROSS NOWHERE
Losing the where to preserve the why...
 • Chad Love
AT THE WATER'S EDGE
Watching the world unfold in quail country, one sunset at a time
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: SOME DREAMS REMAIN DREAMS...
I was idly perusing an online used gun site recently, just seeing what interesting old shotguns they had, when I came across a listing which stopped my…
 • Chad Love
OLD MAN, YELLING AT CLOUDS
Hello, young men with cameras on your heads.
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: RELEASE
Somewhere in the Driftless, happily lost in all that ancient Ice Age wonder, with only a 3wt and a tiny, flowing blue line to show me the light and the…
 • Chad Love
TORNADO WATCH
If there’s anything finer or more spirit-renewing than a warm, sun-drenched spring afternoon in Oklahoma, this admittedly parochial native has yet to…
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: BULLET HOLES AND UNION JACKS
“I will never forget myself starting across the sere Oklahoma panhandle at dusk one cold February evening and becoming so depressed by the melancholy of…
 • Chad Love
FRIDAY PHOTO: PRAIRIE DANCERS
The hauntingly beautiful words below are from the late, great, and incomparable Texas writer John Graves, taken from his essay, “Self Portrait, With…
 • Chad Love
Mostly Feathers
Wild birds and good dogs, timeless books and endless questions, lonely places and moving water, the grass below and the sky above, and the never-ending absurdity and enduring beauty of life.
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