My Beautiful Granddaughter Congratulations on becoming a teenager-the big one three-13. Where did the years go! When you make it to say 30, you’ll look back on 13 and wish for those days when it seemed like there was nothing important to worry about. Thinking almost as if nothing really important happens in the early … Continue reading Amaya, Happy Birthday
On Double Acres Blog on Fly Fishing
Hey, Double Acres, I enjoy your stories. This one reminded me of my aversion to fly fishing. To me, when I was younger, fly fishing was like that pretty girl who was just out of reach for a guy like me. Then, when I finally got the the nerve and asked her out, the date … Continue reading On Double Acres Blog on Fly Fishing
Revelation at Cockroach Bay and the Skyway Fishing Pier
I’m getting ready for another fishing trip. I’m at that stage which might be the best part of the trip, and I haven’t even left the house. It’s the anticipation that makes every trip good. Even when it turns out miserable, and it often does when you’re in the wild chasing something, which for it … Continue reading Revelation at Cockroach Bay and the Skyway Fishing Pier
Learning the Language
Do you hear what I hear? Do you see what I see? Evidently not, or you would be catching more fish, I muse to myself as I reel in another big smallmouth. My wife Mary lived in Venezuela until she was 40 yrs. old. She knows Spanish like I know English. And she’s fluent in … Continue reading Learning the Language
Spring in West Virginia
Spring in West Virginia. It’s the middle of April and there’s 2 inches of snow on the ground. This is not the trip I envisioned. March is supposed to be the windy month, but the wind has blown hard every day we’ve been here. It blew the canoe against the current and up into the … Continue reading Spring in West Virginia
Alternative to Strife in Politics
When I was younger, like my parents and the majority of other West Virginians, I was a Democrat. The first time I voted was in the primary of 1976. My mother got a job for me driving those without transportation to the poles. The organization I was driving for was one of the democratic factions. … Continue reading Alternative to Strife in Politics
Hindsight Is 20/20
In 2016 an angel could have visited me and said, “Oh, you who are highly favored, you have been blessed with stage IV lung cancer” and I would have said, “What!”
The Mockingbird and the Great Egret
they’ll have this written bit of history to rely on as the story gets retold in the future when the number of squirrels killed and the size of the trout will likely grow exponentially with each retelling
Truth Found in the Turkey Woods
As the whole world goes crazy, and for once that’s not an exaggeration, I prepare for the third day of Georgia’s Spring Gobbler season.
Tater Wagons in Heaven
My wife found this long lost poem when cleaning out a drawer filled with old papers. I wrote this during my first semester in college.
Greg Justice 