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A Return to Fly Fishing
It’s been at least five years since I’ve fly fished. My tween-aged son is drawing me back into it by way of his emerging spinner rod fishing obsession. Now I cast, standing alone in the Read more…
It’s been at least five years since I’ve fly fished. My tween-aged son is drawing me back into it by way of his emerging spinner rod fishing obsession. Now I cast, standing alone in the Read more…
I am committing to a new writing practice, a memoir series that I will publish weekly on this blog for at least 52 weeks. I’m calling it “Among Other Things.” I see beauty, value and Read more…
(Release Date: 4.23.24) Title: Jason Marsden, on GARNA, the state of journalism today, being a cocktail party diversion at Harvard, and his friend Matthew Shepard Overview: In this episode of We Are Chaffee’s Looking Upstream Read more…
I often write, speak and art as a hopeful means of connecting with some new snippet of clarity about some age-old idea. Nothing original, I assume, though it carries a sense of seeming newness to Read more…
In Steven Pressfield’s memoir, Govt Cheese, he opens chapter 47, “Art Is Artifice,” with these lines: I’ve heard that birds sing out of pure joy. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe writers write or Read more…
I’ve described my approach to vulnerability in podcast conversations this way: It’s like a high flag staked in the ground or a flare shot into the sky, a signal to others who want connection to Read more…
I’ve long told myself, “I’ll know I’m getting somewhere when the haters start hatin’.” I create public-facing work in various capacities. As a writer, photographer, podcaster and visual artist. By the nature of being an Read more…
UPDATE: See Among Other Things Part of me wants to write a memoir. For my sons. And my sins, if that’d help. That is, maybe also for me. In part, because I think we all Read more…
Editor’s Note: I am the host, producer and photographer for the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast. I also write a monthly guest column related to the podcast for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo.: Read more…
Title: Jennifer Dempsey, on the value of social circus, Belfast during ‘The Troubles,’ creating resilience through humor and being the world’s worst waitress Overview: In this episode of We Are Chaffee’s Looking Upstream podcast, Adam Read more…
(Release Date: 3.12.24) Title: Shane McNeil, on ‘Guy with the Chevy Tattoo,’ straight-edge punk, three chords and the truth, psilocybin, PMA & living in the gray Overview: In this episode of We Are Chaffee’s Looking Read more…
I write a monthly newspaper column related to a podcast I host and produce, We Are Chaffee’s “Looking Upstream.” Each column is published in two local newspapers in the rural Arkansas Valley (Colo.) where this Read more…
Editor’s Note: I am the host, producer and photographer for the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast. I also write a monthly guest column related to the podcast for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo.: Read more…
As you might know, I have podcast conversations regularly. You know, being a podcast producer and host and such. Only occasionally am I a guest on someone else’s podcast. A few months ago, however, I Read more…
Editor’s Note: I am the host, producer and photographer for the We Are Chaffee: Looking Upstream podcast. I also write a monthly guest column related to the podcast for two local newspapers in Chaffee County, Colo.: Read more…