Shepherd forms bastard frat
The Crazy Shepherd Years | 1983 Click here to view the PDF file.
Unstuck at Elevation
At nineteen years old, Ben has a mind-out-of-body experience, as he and two college buddies drive down the Big Thompson Canyon from Estes Park to Loveland, beneath the big blue sky of the Colorado
The Reckoning
A beat-up station wagon with phony wood sides and avocado body pulls up loudly to the back of the gym. Three teenage Indian and one white boy hop in. “Is it okay
Northern Double Header
“Eventually, all things merge into one; and a river runs through it.” -Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It Growing up on a mill pond in a small town in the days before
Everyone Needs an Ass-Whupping, Every Now and Then
Ben gets his first black eye when he’s 12 years old. It’s a good one. One for the books. It happens at the Caroline Ballroom in 1972, in the small Wisconsin farm-town where
Sense Appreciation
It’s the beginning of autumn, and the air is freighted with the smell of cold weather coming. Early October in this small, central Wisconsin farm town is a feast for the senses. Sugar maples
