My novel, Lost And In Touch (Erin Mark Adventures), went out to beta readers last week. As a celebration, here's an excerpt. Erin and Finn spent a long day backpacking the Sioux-Hustler trail in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Of course, things didn't necessarily go as planned. But now, they are at camp. They ate dinner, and are almost ready to turn in for the Continue Reading
Adventures in Backpacking
Hello Dear Readers, Yes, I've been a bad blogger lately. Sorry. I've been spending all my writing time doing my final edits of my novel, Lost and In Touch (An Erin Mark Adventure). Fiercely independent Erin Mark seeks adventure on a group backpacking trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. She gets more than she bargained for on the beautiful yet perilous Sioux Continue Reading
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger?
I take issue with the phrase, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” (Random mental asides in quotations.) First of all, we live in a complicated world. Shades of grey fill our lives. The probability of a random thing being either black or white is zero. (Note: mathematically speaking, that does not mean impossible.) Therefore, all things lie on a Continue Reading
How Safe is Your Spring Song in this Relentless Winter?
Spring has come late this year. Here in the north, lakes still have almost two feet of ice for fishing opener weekend. Meteorologists say that our atmosphere is about a month behind its normal warming trend. That explains the cold, wet, March-like weather in the middle of April. But the sun stays rigidly on schedule. The days have lengthened, signaling spring to many Continue Reading
Why All Weather is Good Weather
It’s April. We’re well into spring. It’s snowing. And we already have several inches of white stuff on the ground. Why won’t the weather cooperate? Last April, we played outside in short sleeves. The world had turned the green of spring, with new life visible everywhere. Yes, last year was freakishly warm, and ultimately bad for the plants, but it sure felt Continue Reading
