I was at the shop 'til well after 7pm tonight. Mrs. KintlaLake was done working six hours earlier, and as soon as she got home she put ...

Mrs. KintlaLake's car, a seven-year-old Saab 9-3 that she bought used, has been hinting recently that its battery was on the way out. Ye...

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the servic...

It takes a lot to keep me from going to work, even when my take-home pay doesn't depend on me showing up. For the last two days, however...

The shop where I work closes at 5pm on Saturdays. Today, however, we locked the doors two hours early and routed incoming calls to the answe...

Checking out with my purchases at the drug store last week, I glanced over the selection of mints and chewing gum. Next to the regular-sized...

The KintlaLake family opened presents last night, as is our holiday tradition, and unstocked stockings this morning. I'll spare readers ...

Whatever you celebrate this holiday season, remember to celebrate home, love, family and freedom. Give thanks for life's blessings, grea...

"Thank you, My Gift, for your support , your sanity , your example to all of us and, most of all, for your love !" (inscribed ...

With Christmas and New Year's falling on Fridays, and since our shop closes Wednesdays and Sundays anyway, these two weeks were bound to...

It's been six months since I offered KintlaLake's Top Five Old-School Preparations . Time to add one more to the list, even though ...

The online community over on KnifeForums is pretty cool. Beyond lively participation by rank-and-file users, it benefits greatly from the a...

It snowed here last night. It snowed this morning. It snowed all day long -- sort of, anyway. Unlike areas to the south and east of here, na...

When I posted about juggling my everyday-carry lineup last month, I speculated that I'd "make more adjustments as time goes by....

Andy Roy is a craftsman. He makes his Fiddleback Forge knives by hand, and now I have the rare pleasure of holding a sample of his craftsm...

Sitting idly in my truck before work this morning, I watched the comings and goings across the street. At one point a Cadillac XLR, dark red...

My regular job gives me Wednesdays and Sundays off. Fridays and Saturdays the shop shuts at 5pm; the other three days I work 'til 7pm. Y...

Eddie's gone. Once my co-worker, always a friend to me and eventually to my family, Eddie flashed into my life and thousands of others -...

Our teenage spawns have watched a number of knives enter and leave my hands over the last year or so. Sometimes they're impressed with a...

Almost 30 years ago, I shared many musical hours with a friend and fellow college student -- he on piano, me on guitar. Strange as it seems ...