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Mike Wilson: A story about namesakes
I was once told that I was named Michael after my mother’s favorite great uncle Mike Omar, who ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: Scouting days
I loved Scouting. I “went the distance” from Cub Scout on the first day I was eligible to ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: The bream rock
As a sexagenarian, I have lost almost all of my enthusiasm for baking outdoors in the summer midday ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: Here’s some variations on buck fever
I shot my first deer as an adult in Virginia about 35 years ago. When I was a ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: Lick Creek days: My river family
After I recently lectured to a Hispanic culture class about the profound importance of “fictive kinship” (social bonds ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: ‘Boy with Stringer and Sheath Knife,’ painted 1966
One of my most prized possessions is a watercolor painted behind my back some years ago by an ... Read more
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Mike Wilson: Attack of the Identified Flying Objects
Thinking back across the decades as we go through another January, I am struck by the thought that ... Read more
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Mike Wilson : I sympathized with Rodney Dangerfield
I was deeply saddened when my favorite comedian Rodney Dangerfield (you will remember him as bug-eyed, sweaty, and ... Read more
Lifestyles
Mike Wilson: It was a case of death by salami
I fear that, when conversations turn toward my historic inclusion on the Hap’s Grill Wall of Fame, I ... Read more
Opinion
His thoughts — Vaya con Dios, Jorge
It’s been a year now since my dear friend Jorge (aka Dr. Jorge Antonio Silveira y Montes de ... Read more