NO Stopping, No Regrets
My author’s bio says that I pursue sports “that have the potential to maim me.” Unfortunately, that statement was, and will continue to...
Born to Run: Dogsledding in the Arctic Circle in Finland
This story ran in the January issue of Outpost Magazine. You can visit the webpage by clicking the link on news page. The cacophony of...
Book Review: "Dark Network," An Absorbing Political Thriller
In “Dark Network,” author James McCrone’s second part of the Imogen Traeger political thriller series, the story is absorbing and the...
10 Things All Authors Should Know…Before Self-Publishing
Below are some truths that apply to any self-published title, fiction or nonfiction. These harsh realities are meant to help you with...
Kayaking with Ancient Ice, Newfoundland, Canada
They look like angular snowballs, on steroids, but they aren’t. Icebergs are in fact ice, very old, very dense ice that’s calved off a...
A Backwards Road to Publishing
“I bon’t reab well…I hate reabing. It’s slom, harb and confusinq.” That was me, until eighth grade. Mrs. Salmon tried to flunk me; she...
I'm the Boss, Back Off!
We race through the dank African bush. Brush and trees whip the sides of the Land Rover. We’re seated on one of the truck’s bench seats....
Forgive Yourself and Write
Author Ann Patchett said in her book This is the story of a Happy Marriage: “I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly...
Misty Paddle on Donner Lake
Early morning on Donner Lake: The mist was wonderfully thick and the lake was glass. Stand-up paddling is my meditation and morning...
Zip Lining the Zambezi
It’s 420 feet down to the roiling African river, the Zambezi, where crocs and hippos live and … feed. I’m about to push off and fly...
