• An Animal Story – Paddling Lake Conroe, Texas

    Copyright Graham Paul Knopp 2025 This is a short story about a wildlife encounter in which I say “I” far more frequently than I am comfortable with. So I’m paddling Lake Conroe in the bayou north from the Stubblefield Lake Road boat ramp, which is a reservoir, so you’re paddling up this flooded stream channel,…

  • On Beavers

    Copyright 2025 Graham Paul Knopp The town of Stettin, just west of Wausau, Wisconsin is an area of rolling hills and running streams, interrupted by ponds and marshes. It’s a beautiful land that has praries in the high places, and deep woods in the low places, which teem with wildlife. In 1975, my parents bought…

  • On Wisconsin

    copyright Graham Paul Knopp 2025 Wisconsin is a set of memories. If I picked a sound that most reminds me of Wisconsin, it would be the cold winter wind, whistling in the eves as I try to get warm enough to sleep comfortably, night after night after cold, long, dark night. If I choose a…

  • Sky Islands Odyssey Bikepacking, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona

    Given the climate and the advent of spring here in Texas, an exhausting goal seems in order. Maybe it’s my simple form of protest to the trending zeitgeist of paralyzing fear and anger, despair, and confusion. Or it’s grief, perhaps, which can make us want to lash out. Break out of this figurative constitutional crisis.…