Erik Hedegaard

a collection of letters to the editor about stories i’ve done, along with ramblings from various internet others. some love, along with a good bit of hate, some deserved, some which got me thinking, some which simply got to me. do i have regrets? do…

I wrote the following about two decades ago, before the two wed, and don't think it ever ran. Just found it, so I thought I'd put it here, for anyone who cares. My favorite moment? When Melania sees a pair of mating dragonflies and says, "Oh, my…

The first time my little ball of fluff, Lilly, proved her worth as a “connector” was at Law Street Park in San Diego, overlooking a bunch of crappy waves but with the sun shining down on a tattooed blonde girl sitting on the ground. I’m not going to…

Meet one of the best — an investment pessimist and panicker of deep experience. You’ll laugh as he stews and fusses over the year-2000 computer bug. You’ll Shake your head as he stuffs his mattress with cash and prepares for social breakdown. You’ll…

NO BLAST NOT EVEN A SPLASH! Long-distance casting–it ain’t the meat, it’s the motion. THE GREEN FIELD stretches on, with bales of hay piled in the distance, and nary a body of water in sight–no roaring ocean, no sparkling lake, no tiny stream. Yet…

I really wish I’d done what financial adviser Adriane Berg told me to do 12 years ago. I never knew how much I wished it until recently, when I gave her a call. She sighed deeply when I told her I hadn’t taken one word of her advice. She sighed once…

Devilish Doings and True Religion on the Professional Bass Fishing Circuit Now, you could get all riled up about this or just let it slide, toss your Ranger on plane and spray a rooster tail across the water, further back into Cedar Creek, maybe fan…

This Is Your Brain On eBay By Erik Hedegaard He had so much: loving wife, adoring daughter (well…), nice home — a life. Then he discovered junk. Not long ago, my wife thought it would be a great idea to unload some of the crap cluttering our house.…

The other day, I spent some time checking out the ads in the back of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities. I love the ads in that magazine. They’re sexy. They promise awesome stock-market riches for almost nothing. For instance, for a mere…

A LESSON WITH LEFTY The Greatest Flycasting Instructor of Ail Time has taughtthousands and thousands and never had a failure. Until now. AT FRESHWATER FLYCASTING, I’m pretty darn good. But when it comes to the long-distance, heavyweight demands of…

PATTY FROM NEW YORK STEPPED FORWARD, AWAY from the shadows next to the DJ’s shack, to take her rightful place in the sun. This was at a bikini contest, on a stage, close to the pool at the Hojo’s in Daytona Beach. It was the cusp of another…

You ever wanted something so badly that you didn’t know where to stop and ended up doing crazy stuff until you got it and then sat around scratching your head, wondering what the heck you were thinking in the first place? I’ve felt that kind of itch…

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think life is worth living without a hobby or two. My hobbies have included: model airplanes (lots of noise, lots of expensive crashes), fly-fishing (I sucked – not even the great Lefty Kreh could teach me how to…

What would make a man eat seven meals a day, dead-lift six hundred pounds, and pump himself with drugs that turn his brain to mush, make him crazy, and could eventually kill him? Erik Hedegaard enters the world of professional bodybuilding to find…

Leonard Carlo’s problem with the Colorado state liquor agents is, they shouldn’t have come in and ripped the 29 signs off the walls of his bar, Leonard’s II, on East Platte in Colorado Springs. He feels about his signs the way he felt about his two…