Category Archives: Blog Archive

(Posted July 26, 2010) Staying with friends. Didn’t start doing it at the beginning of my sojourn into self-publishing but, as the bottom line loomed more important, as it became clear Steve Spielberg wasn’t going to call, pick up a … Continue reading →

(Posted July 18, 2010) My kids long ago coined the phrase. We were in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where I was to read from my debut novel, The Legacy at the Grant Park McNally-Robinson bookstore. My second son Dylan (who was in … Continue reading →

(Posted July 15, 2010) It’s been humid all day. When I got off work and drove home, even though the temperature on my car’s thermometer read in the high seventies, it felt warmer because the air was so damn heavy. … Continue reading →

(Posted July 12, 2010) Pockerbrush. The name coined by Minnesota novelist, and Friberg Township native, Herbert Krause (Wind Without Rain) to describe the hardscrabble environment of rural Otter Tail County, Minnesota. I pull into the Phelps Mill County Park parking … Continue reading →

(Posted June 28, 2010) Rochester Minnesota. The Think Green Festival. I drop my third son Chris and Jimi, my wife’s wiener dog, off at Chris’ girlfriend’s house in Minneapolis before resuming my drive from Duluth to the home of the … Continue reading →

(Posted June 22, 2010) Morning. I stumble down the stairs into our kitchen, open the pantry doors and a cabinet drawer and grope for the coffee canister, filters, and a large spoon. Water splashes from faucet into pot. The coffee … Continue reading →

    (Posted June 19, 2010) Driving in this morning, one car ahead of me on the Emerson Road, a blacktopped rural two-lane, she sat in the oncoming lane: a hen partridge (ruffed grouse) her head bobbing nervously, her dark … Continue reading →

  (Posted June 14, 2010) Yesterday, after all the hub-bub of a busy Saturday, it was time to mow the lawn. Now, to those of you who grew up on a farm, that statement likely seems trite. If you spent … Continue reading →

The Mungers (Posted June 2, 2010) The week before Memorial Day weekend. The final push. For a couple of weeks, I’ve worked my tail off, getting new tires on the Pacifica (tired of having to put air in them every … Continue reading →

(Posted May 26, 2010) Last weekend my youngest son, Jack, and I paddled one of our family canoes down the Cloquet River. Our route took us from our house on the river to Hunter Lake, a small oxbow lake off … Continue reading →