More than thirty years have passed since I sat inside a Native American sweat lodge beside the mighty Klamath River, yet I still carry with

The Great Unmasking There are moments on a river when the water itself seems to grow quieter. Not because it has stopped moving, but because

I didn’t learn this lesson in a lecture theatre or leadership seminar. I learned it beside a river after another long day on the water,

The Boy Within One afternoon on a multi-day rafting trip with twenty boys from a youth detention centre, we pulled the rafts onto a gravel

Will Smith’s a famous actor.I’m a bloke who writes.Yet both of us grew up with dadsWho changed on certain nights. You might be wondering why

Which Dad Tonight? A while ago I listened to Will Smith speaking about his father and found myself thinking about my own. Our lives unfolded

It was that wonderful time of day; sitting around the campfire after a long day on the river. Our 20 young offenders, six river guides

Over years of guiding white-water rafting trips through the wild mountain rivers of southern Oregon, I have witnessed moments that still surge through my memory

By the eleventh day the river had worked its quiet magic. Nobody had become a saint. Fred could still stir up trouble when the mood