Thor and I are off on another adventure, research for my new novel-in-progress, but meanwhile we’ll revisit our first trip to Mexico together, our casi luna de miel (almost honeymoon) eight years ago. Another novel, a humorous mystery set along … Continue reading
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By the time this is posted, I’ll be joining other Book View Café authors at Sasquan, the World Science Fiction Con in Spokane, where I hope the heat and wildfire smoke don’t fog the festivities. So before Thor and I … Continue reading
The Rambling Writer Takes a Trip Over the Border “And now for something completely different,” Thor announced. It was a hot, sunny day, but instead of our usual hiking getaway to a secluded mountain lake for a bracing dip, we … Continue reading
Time for another mountain hike with Thor and Bear dog. As I’ve mentioned before, this year in the Pacific Northwest is presenting us with some weather patterns I’ve never seen before, and I was born and raised here. We’re in … Continue reading
“We are the Lhaq’temish, the Lummi People.” Now called the Lummi, these Coast Salish natives of Northwest Washington State and southern British Columbia inhabit a reservation just a few miles north of my hometown in Bellingham, WA. Dad used to … Continue reading
The Rambling Writer celebrates an early summer with Thor and Bear on the trail. Summer! Darkness finally falls around 10:00 pm in our far corner of the Pacific Northwest near the Canadian border, and this year we’ve been swimming … Continue reading
The Rambling Writer quits teaching—well, almost…. I knew from an early age that I would be a writer. I wrote my first (illustrated) science fiction story at six, and when my Grandma Sara played the card game “Authors” with me, … Continue reading
The Rambling Writer visits Washington, D.C., with her veteran dad. (Note: I’ll return to my Greece travels and novel research in my next blog, June 13; the first installment was on May 16.) This Memorial Day, I took my 92-year-old … Continue reading
Back when I had more time than money, I followed the sirens’ call to Greece, whose mythology had enchanted me since childhood. Loading up my backpack, I set off on four months of ferry trips, hiking, hosteling and camping on … Continue reading
Author events can take different forms: Author reads prose or poetry for an hour or so. Author presents a slideshow about research or the process of writing a book. An interview or Q&A with the audience. A mini-workshop imparting a … Continue reading