by Jim Huckabay | Apr 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
You’ve probably been hearing it, too. I’ve had at least a half dozen recent conversations about deer and elk “shed hunting” in the hills around Paradise – our part of Washington State. People get excited about finding cast “horns,” and some of them get downright...
by Jim Huckabay | Apr 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Patrick F. McManus has been on my mind. You are aware, no doubt, that Pat went on to his well-earned reward on April 11 in Spokane, Washington. He was 84. As our very own Northwest-grown humorist, and as a man whose conversations I treasured, it somehow seems...
by Jim Huckabay | Apr 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Funny, all the contexts within which the spirit of Earth Day appears. For nearly 50 years (since 1970), April 22 has been set aside as a time to honor our Mother Earth. Some will argue that the environmental movement had its birth on that day, while others point to...
by Jim Huckabay | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over the half-dozen decades since The Old Man dragged me and my kid brothers to the National Rifle Association (NRA) range in East Wenatchee, “NRA” has always been a good conversation. Depending on where I might be in this country, or another, the association was...