MIKE WILSON
Mike Wilson: Make mine a redhead
If zipping along in the dark at 26 knots in 25 degree temperatures and 20 knot winds in a 21-foot fiberglass tub in skinny water ...
If zipping along in the dark at 26 knots in 25 degree temperatures and 20 knot winds in a 21-foot fiberglass tub in skinny water ...
My last time serving as a deer hound happened in Meherrin. Now I have been duck hunting a few times with others who had well-trained ...
After reading my recent piece on confessions, my daughter hastened to inform me that I had left out a very important one, so here goes: ...
When the Briery Creek Wildlife Management Area, featuring hundreds of acres of flooded timber for bass fishing and duck hunting, opened in Prince Edward County ...
My grandmother Ella in Jackson, Tennessee was the best cook I’ve ever known. Her Thanksgiving dinners— always served promptly at noon per their custom from ...
A well-heeled middle-aged acquaintance of mine recently decided to take up fowling for the first time and asked for my guidance in gearing up for ...
Let’s talk about modern granddadding. There is nothing in this life quite like that moment when you hold a newborn grandchild for the first time. ...
While channel surfing recently, I happened upon “The Goonies,” a family favorite from the mid-80’s. I landed on that wonderful scene in which Chunk, believing ...
It is a significant understatement to declare that my friend The DC (apologies to Phil, but doesn’t every veteran duck-hunting crew have one by now?) ...
I still remember meeting Mr. French for the first time very clearly, even though it has now been almost 60 years ago. How could I ...
Seeing the “back to school sales” in the paper the other day took me back to my own primary school days — and especially the ...
My good friend the Boss Man and I often joke about lulling our opponents into complacency during match play in golf by losing hole after ...
More the gourmand than the gourmet, I have never been especially intrigued by all those stories in outdoor magazines about pursuing tiny native cutthroats in ...
Granddadding. Is that a word? If not, I’m making it one. There is nothing in this life quite like that moment when you hold a ...
As I get along in years, I find myself consciously checking items off my “bucket list” like many others, I suppose. Our 40th anniversary trip ...
My good father died of mesothelioma in 1992 at the age of 57 — much too young — on the same day as the richest ...
Well, Farmville, I guess you could say I had a way of getting myself into unusual predicaments when I was a boy because I was ...
I pretty much retired from dove hunting when the state opened up the “resident goose season” several years ago after reflecting that a single goose ...
Apparently I scarred my grown daughters for life by chugging down a Red Bull at 2 a.m. We were somewhere off I-95 as we raced ...
One thing I’ve learned in Farmville and elsewhere is when you’re hot, you’re hot. No, not that great Jerry Reed song from the “Smokey and ...
Sorry, this is not about Elvis, though I did encounter him twice as a teenager in Memphis. The first time, I was working all night ...
In light of the most recent round of border disturbances, Mexico no longer calls to me as it once did, but there was a time ...
Christian Sorenson Bennett, one year my senior, was my favorite boyhood cousin. He was named after his Danish grandfather (my great-grandfather), a fisherman who had ...
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 ...
There is an arresting and memorable image in “Sensation of Velocity,” a Vanguardist poem from the 1920’s by Jorge Luis Borges: that of a sleek ...
I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 35 years ago. Here’s a story of a couple variations of buck fever. When ...
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 ...
On Friday, July 26 at 8:15 PM ET, the St. Louis Cardinals (53-49) host the Washington Nationals (47-56)…
In a Friday MLB schedule that includes a lot of thrilling matchups, the Cleveland Guardians versus the Philadelphia…
The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals will send Sonny Gray and MacKenzie Gore, respectively, out to start…
Commanders Field is where the Tennessee Titans (0-0) will do battle with the Washington Commanders (0-0) on Sunday,…
The Washington Commanders (0-0) and the Dallas Cowboys (0-0) — two NFC East opponents — meet on Sunday,…