A Promise Kept

We moved around a lot when I was a kid, never near ponds or rivers or bodies of water. As a result, fishing wasn’t really a part of our family vocabulary. Never did it. Never tried it. And honestly, I can’t say it’s something I felt was desperately missing from my life. But I promised one of my students that I’d go fishing at the lake house when we got here. So here I am, graying on a cold and rainy day at 44, trying something new.