Category: Brant Lake

The Psychiatrist and the Ice Fisherman: Reflections on the Ego, the Id, and the Trout

      Since Greg had never watched the winter sport of ice fishing I thought an ice fishing expedition might divert him from his normal activities as a psychiatrist. Especially since, during his visit to Brant Lake, he had tried to analyze everyone he met—not that I was critical of this occupational hazard. In…

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Eulogy for a General Store

    August 1, 2006. 3 AM. Sirens resonated along the desolate road leading towards the town of Brant Lake; the wailing of a fire engine under a phosphorescent red sky. It had been a dry summer, the danger of a forest fire always imminent. No one wished to consider the other possibility, a house…

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