To most people, the lure of ice fishing is a total mystery, even for those who like to fish in normal conditions. When most piscators have the sense to winterize their boats and put away their fishing gear for the season, ice fishermen get all excited about the sub-zero temperatures steadily thickening the ice. Ice fishing is a bizarre, perhaps neurotic, pastime filled with masochistic pleasure, as its practitioners eagerly risk frostbite while standing for hours on wind-blown ice. And yet, as I write this blog post, I am nearly trembling with excitement to get out on the ice to lower a colorful jig into the mysterious and hopefully fish-filled darkness below.

Tom explains the finer points of the view from his window in the city.

What is Thanksgiving without the leftovers? Blogger Thomas Walker explains the heart and the clandestine planning that go into successful Thanksgiving leftovers.

Tom is in birthday denial as he humorously rants about birthday, aging, and going to the gym.

Tom humorously expounds on the pleasure that duck hunting has brought him throughout his life.

Tom Walker’s life is filled with drama due to his wife’s antagonistic relationship with bugs.

Thomas Walker is off on a new venture, reinventing himself in his retirement years as a write and publisher.

Tom Walker explains the big changes that have accompanied retirement as he and his wife relocated to a small home-base apartment in Sioux Falls.

Nine-fingered typing is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to blogger Thomas Walker. He explains in this humorous blog post.

Thomas Walker relates the joys of a honey-do list item he could really get into: fly-fishing with his grandson.

Thomas Walker finds virtue, exercise, and humiliation in a DIY concrete floor.

Thomas Walker gives a descriptive geographical rendering of the mountains he calls his own.