When I read a novel, I know that I’m engaged in a vicarious experience—I get to witness from a safe distance as the characters are… Read More »Hopefully

If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time (too much?) thinking about the future: planning, projecting, then revising those plans and projections. Do… Read More »Cranes May not be at Lake

I’m pecking away on a picture book manuscript— paring it down, and down, and down. Pretty soon it will have a negative word count, which… Read More »Picture books, more or less . . .

Improbably doesn’t necessarily mean impossible. Maintain balance. Go for your dreams!

I’ve been thinking, and writing, a lot about what it means to be a man. Popular culture sends many messages, often mixed and contradictory. A… Read More »The Question of Masculinity

Nearing the top of Dimple Hill, the 1,000+ foot elevation gain of this McDonald Forest trail run speaks to me in the language of legs… Read More »Pulse

As a writer, words are my bread and butter, my bricks and mortar, the stuff from which I make stories. I’ve been thinking about the… Read More »Good to See you!

As a fiction writer, it is not unusual for me to throw so much adversity at my characters that at least one (usually the protagonist)… Read More »Justice does not require anger . . .

Winter Solstice: the darkest day of the year, especially here in Oregon after a storm moved in. Solution, in my humble opinion, is twofold: 1)… Read More »Let There be Light

When something improbable happened on his Kentucky dairy farm, my friend Rube Kubale used to say, “Well, that’s a who’d-a-thought-it.” 2020, it seems to me,… Read More »Who’d-a-thought-it