Some of our readers have asked how I have the energy to run a business at my age of 75.

So, did you have a good Fourth of July?

Dear Dave, I’ve accepted a promotion that would take me from an hourly wage to a salaried position.

The older I get, the harder it is to leave the house past 8 p.m.

For decades Europe has been facing two long-term trends that are changing the face of the continent: exceedingly low fertility rates with a rapidly aging and declining population, accompanied by a second trend of taking in millions of economic migrants and asylum seekers mainly from the Middle East and Africa, many of whom are having difficulty assimilating in their new country.

I remember the first time I went hunting — my absolute favorite thing about the entire experience was listening to the forest come alive around me as I waited for the sun to rise.

I am writing this column while sitting on a bench in the woods close to my home.

Well, what’s there to write about this week?

Wedding announcements rarely find their way into the outdoors section of the newspaper, but after much debate, I decided to post this one. The debate was over privacy, but also because I loathe writing in first person.

After staring at a blinking cursor for roughly a half-hour trying to come up with a topic for this column, I did some surfing around the internet to see what other sporting scribes were writing about this time of year.