
Questions for the Keeper: tides
While I mixed up the pancake batter this morning, a house guests seated at the kitchen table peppered me with questions about the tides. In answer to one of his questions and to illustrate the difficu ...

What's with all the bass boats?
This morning at breakfast, my guests wondered why so many bass boats were zooming around on the river. The boats were out in force this morning, speeding en masse down the river with a few peeling off ...

Question for the Keeper
What are those fish that are jumping and why do they jump? Sitting outside on a summer evening, the nearly full moon clearly reflected in becalmed waters. A stillness prevailed, punctuated by the occ ...

Question for the keeper: the light at night
Does the light in the tower bother you at night? If I suffer sleep-deprivation and insomnia, it's not because of the flashing beacon in the lighthouse tower. I barely notice that it's on. To be sure ...

Question for the keeper: smells
This question comes from a fiction-writer in Chicago: what does the lighthouse smell like? Let me begin by saying that I'm relieved that she didn't ask what the lighthouse KEEPER smells like. Not ne ...