“I ain’t old, just seasoned”: A rookie ranger’s delusion
My wife says that if country songs were personal anthems, mine would be Toby Keith’s “As Good as I Once Was.” Maybe she’s right. I sure was singing it two summers ago when I rookied as a wilderness...
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Deer tiptoed along a muddy trail. Squirrels plodded through a melted yard. A red-tailed hawk sat on a fencepost, soaked and brooding, her eyes on a roadside ditch where mice hid in the still-brown...
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I must’ve heard it a hundred times last summer. “Everybody loves turtles,” Captain Eric would say whenever the Mississippi Explorer reached Broken Arrow Slough, a haven for sun-loving reptiles. In the...
View Article“I ain’t old, just seasoned”: A rookie ranger’s delusion
My wife says that if country songs were personal anthems, mine would be Toby Keith’s “As Good as I Once Was.” Maybe she’s right. I sure was singing it two summers ago when I rookied as a wilderness...
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