In a column for The Northwoods Sporting Journal, I reviewed We Took To the Woods, Louise Dickinson Rich’s book about her time living with her husband, Ralph Rich along the Rapid River. Some might say they had a pretty good marriage.

I’m no expert. Don’t pretend to be. But Trish and I have been married for forty-one years and that has to count for something. Hell, we beat the odds or so I’m told. We met while I clerked for a Superior Court Judge. She was juror number six. I later learned she had ...