I have been in Alaska fishing for 25 days. During this time I have been on a news/current events fast, that is I haven’t read the news, visited any of my favorite internet sights, or even gotten into discussions with anybody about politics or the latest on the economy. It has been relatively easy because fishing tends to take all my focus and I rarely think about anything else. I fish, read my Bible, memorize Bible verses, read a good theology book about demons and angels, write my blog, eat, sleep, fish some more and on and on. It has been incredibly refreshing not being caught up in all the stuff going on in our government and world.

Tonight I took a few minutes to read a few news things and listen to one of my favorite commentators on current events. The fifteen-minute experience was like WOW, I have missed out on a lot of news and things happening. I may not have read or heard about what has been happening, but I am not sure that I have missed out on anything. Life has been great, and I think that one of the reasons is that there hasn’t been much negative that has come into my mind except an occasional low fish count.

Reading, listening and keeping up with all the latest in the world of politics, the economy, and world conflicts is addicting, like watching a soap opera. I have broken that addiction and I plan on staying free from it. I am going to give myself thirty minutes once a week on regular news stuff and 10 minutes every day on sports news. Before the days of the internet I got all of my news from the daily newspaper. I spent 30 minutes reading it every day, about 10 minutes on the “Funny” page, 15 minutes on sports and about 5 minutes on the front page. Now, those were the good old days.