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Finding Joy in a Bowl: A guest post by Jacki Skole

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Today’s post and photos are courtesy of Dogland author Jacki Skole, whose blog you can find on her website. Enjoy! Finding Joy in a Bowl My ten-year-old stood in the school library cradling a green plastic bowl in her right hand. That morning I’d filled the bowl with cut-up strawberries, but despite being covered, I could tell that strawberries …

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Environmentalism and fishing: Strange bedfellows

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I’m struck by the number of books that equate fishing (particularly fly fishing) with “being one with the environment.” Personally, I find this idea to be a total crock. Yes, I’ve fished.  And fishing was a great excuse to get out into nature. But I vividly remember as a child when I caught a rock …

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