Rick Scibelli

How Does My Carbon Footprint Look To You?

I am not sure how my carbon footprint stacks up. It certainly isn’t anything to be proud of — regardless of your point of view. But don’t ask me. For it seems I...

Sculptors of the Hunt

Rick Scibelli

"Finally he arrives at your door and you carefully usher him inside to the honored place you have reserved especially for him. And one night at 3:00 a.m. yo...

The Path to Here

Rick Scibelli

My dog, now awkwardly solo that his brother was suddenly gone and buried only two nights before, drank tap water from the motel room’s plastic trash can. No dog...

The Toll of Thanksgiving (or, The Turkey Leg Thrower)

Rick Scibelli

Nothing exposes every bad choice every member of your bloodline has ever made like Thanksgiving day. Take the one where my newly-divorced mother’s brand new m...

The Town Mill

Rick Scibelli

One late December evening in 1949 in Cortez, Colorado, the Wark flour mill burned to the ground. Within eight months, the Wark family had it rebuilt and back in...

I Can’t Grow Squat

Rick Scibelli

I have never had success gardening. With the exception of a few tomatoes (literally a total of three over the past several years) that appeared to be of the ‘su...