As outdoorsmen, it's natural to measure time in seasons, each made up of immeasurable small moments. A handful of these experiences live on to become the fabric of tradition - mementos of victories and vestiges of failures that pay homage to pleasures and pains, fears and frustrations, trials and triumphs. Common bonds. We taste them in a cup of coffee poured before a winter trek in the big woods, and smell them in those first, fresh days of spring. We hear them in the soft chuckle of a summer river and see them in the silent sip of trout and the staunch point of a seasoned dog. We wear them like a trusty old flannel beside a campfire, where they become tall tales, or even legends, and celebrate our common bond with wild places and with each other.

Outside in Shorts - Seasons of Life, Luck and Loss in the Outdoors is a collection of 29 short stories that explore a catalog of seasons passed among woods and water - four decades of treasured mementos. Memories of people and places, of piscatorial pursuits and perplexing predicaments, of puppies and parenting and pink cake, and the profound pleasure of a life spent outdoors.