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Ladies and Gentlemen: I proudly present, My 2010 Book List. Here’s a list of everything I read…excluding submissions, editing manuscripts, news articles/magazines, and friends’ stories. It’s been [...]

Alaska bound! 1 REI pack = 50 pounds, exactly 1 portable office = 25 pounds, plus breakfast 1 plane ticket + 1 pair hiking boots + an insatiable penchant for the written word = 6 weeks in The [...]

I’ve been going down to the lake after sunset, letting its quiet sloshing against the sandy shores ready me for this next transition. I have always been a dependable person. But glimpse my inner [...]

It’s one week to departure for The Last Frontier and the Brooks Range is officially out. KB and I will have to backpack through the caribou migration a different year, when an early, cold fall is [...]

[Many thanks for your kind sleep wishes. I was granted 10 hours of sleep last night, aided by 5mg of melatonin.] That quickly, I have shifted gears. It’s 2 weeks to departure and I’m taking [...]

I’m talking on the phone with John Carr Walker, Editor-in-Chief of TRACHODON magazine. We’re trying to figure out the timing of things, prioritize tasks for Issue 1, and still maintain an eye on [...]

Planning four months in advance of my trip to Alaska might seem a bit, well, eager. But when you consider I have to find a place to store my car and my belongings, purchase a whopping plane [...]

We’re at the Otter Creek trailhead and though today’s hike will be more like a nature walk (sponsored by the Park Rangers), I’m struck by my surroundings all the same. The red dogwood shrubs are [...]

Once is not enough. A few days later, I find myself back at the dunes. This time, friends from Wisconsin are visiting and they’re avid birders. The list of birds we saw on a 3-mile hike includes: [...]

The eastern shore of Lake Michigan has the most extensive system of freshwater dunes in the world. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is part of the National Park System and hosts more than 1 [...]