I have always loved a good sea story. It doesn't matter whether it's fighting a typhoon with Conrad, rounding the Horn with Chichester or kicking some nautical butt with Aubrey and Hornblower. If it's got…
Posts published by “Gregg Stevens”
The devil introduced himself to me one fine spring day in the American River canyon just below the town of Auburn. Back in the early 70s, engineers got to looking at that canyon and they…
I was still about half drunk when my plane touched down in San Diego. It had been three weeks since I signed my enlistment papers, and I used that time wisely. I had partied. Large.…
I used to think there wasn’t much a hole in the ground could do. The hole could get bigger, or it could get smaller. And that’s about it. But I’ve recently learned that a hole…
Fighting wildland fires for a living is a real good way to get yourself hurt or killed, and make damn little money in the process. I have often wondered what would make a person literally…
There have been times in my life when I didn't have a job, a car, a house or much more than the clothes on my back. But I have always had a baseball glove. I…
Seventeen years ago I swore on my wife’s grave that I would keep our family together and watch our two baby boys graduate high school as good men. It sure hasn't been a walk in…