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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: The bream rock
As a sexagenarian, I have lost almost all of my enthusiasm for baking outdoors in the summer midday sun for most any reason. Period. I ...
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Mike Wilson: Here’s some variations on buck fever
I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 35 years ago. When I was a kid in Tennessee, whitetail deer were so ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: My river family
After I recently lectured to a Hispanic culture class about the profound importance of “fictive kinship” (social bonds unrelated to blood or marriage) in Latino ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, February 16, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: ‘Boy with Stringer and Sheath Knife,’ painted 1966
One of my most prized possessions is a watercolor painted behind my back some years ago by an artist friend. It was done at the ...
by Mike Wilson, Friday, February 10, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: My grandmother, scourge of the reptile kingdom
My grandmother Ella was a very hardy sportsperson. She once bagged a limit of squirrels when cruelly sidelined by Hodgkin’s disease from the porch of ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: Attack of the Identified Flying Objects
Thinking back across the decades as we go through another January, I am struck by the thought that Identified Flying Objects actually inspire more fear ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, January 26, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson : I sympathized with Rodney Dangerfield
I was deeply saddened when my favorite comedian Rodney Dangerfield (you will remember him as bug-eyed, sweaty, and collar-stretching) passed away. His running gag “I’m ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:00 pm
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Mike Wilson: It was a case of death by salami
I fear that, when conversations turn toward my historic inclusion on the Hap’s Grill Wall of Fame, I may sometimes seem braggadocious. (Okay, I confess ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:10 pm
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His thoughts — Vaya con Dios, Jorge
It’s been a year now since my dear friend Jorge (aka Dr. Jorge Antonio Silveira y Montes de Oca) passed away at 93 in home ...
by Mike Wilson, Thursday, January 5, 2023 12:39 pm
HIS THOUGHTS
Mike Wilson: Hammy New Year!
“Desert Island Discs” is a very popular and long-running (since 1942) program on BBC Radio. Each week the guest “castaways,” usually celebrities, are asked to ...