My wife Andrea and I spent a delightful time Friday and Saturday (Nov. 2 & 3) as guests of the Bracken’s at The Canebake on Fort Gibson Lake in northeastern Oklahoma. Andrea and Bryan, her senior yoga teacher at The Arkansas Yoga Center will be conducting a “New Year’s Revolution” workshop there in January.

We ambled down the hill Saturday morning to a series of clear, quiet ponds. I caught about a dozen bass and sunfish as the kingfishers performed aerobatic stunts over the pond named after them. We love Fayetteville, but we didn't want to leave. Part of me is still on that dock.