A Winter’s Bone

A Winter’s Bone

Damn cold. The stove has died during the night, down to coals. I’m completely awake, just opening my eyes to the dark of the cabin. The creaking I hear as I get out of the bed isn’t just the old bunk springs, it’s my bum elbow and that damn left knee. I heave an...
Ruby

Ruby

Ruby was the original Terminator. As a puppy she proved to be too much for inside the house, and almost too much for the outside. I have never seen a dog so fast, or so muscled or so hard; indeed, I believe you could have hit her anywhere on her body with a broom...
The Waterhole

The Waterhole

At the muddy little pond, a 12-year-old boy would find his place in the world. The Pearman farm in Wythe County, Virginia, near Porter’s Crossroads, was 798 acres of pasture, small grains and sinkhole hardwoods under the watchful eye of my maternal great aunt,...
Get Wade Well

Get Wade Well

Sporting Classics’ longtime friend and contributor is asking for help in the wake of his son’s illness.