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October 20, 2023
Columbia River – #TankaTuesday
Fall-painted rivertwin to dawn’s ruddy sunrisesilhouettes of shorerise into basalt canyons *** A cacophony of geesemigrate south on blue waterswhere the snaking Shoshonegreets the Big River *** White Wy’east guides methrough autumn’s beautyon lost indigenous landswhere dams drowned sacred grounds andtamed a wild river *** If you noticed that I haven’t been around much, it’s … … Continue reading →
October 11, 2023
Three Sisters, Mushrooms, and Plunder – #TankaTuesday
Three Sisters harvest moon’s bountysacred gifts of the mothercoaxed from dry canyonsbeans, squash, lanky golden maizethree sisters of the desert *** I was in New Mexico for the equinox and the full harvest moon. We visited the cliff dwellings at Bandolier National Monument where the Ancestral Puebloans grew beans, squash, and corn in the desert. … … Continue reading →
October 2, 2023
September Book Reviews
Happy Autumn (or Spring) as the case may be. I just returned from a quick jaunt to my brother’s home in sunny/hot New Mexico, and I’m happy to be back in Oregon where cooler temps and colorful leaves have already staked a claim. I didn’t get as much reading done as I’d hoped, but I […]
September 20, 2023
Blackberries – #TankaTuesday
Blackberries ripened blackberrieslace the abandoned horse barn tantalizing waspswings languid in autumn’s coldvines praise the morningtangled in thorny garlandsdraped in crisp sunlightthey tempt my brothers and Iwith plump and soft’ning sweetness wild brambles beckonexacting a toll of weltsfingers stained purpleberries tumble in basketsless those I steal to my lips *** Colleen has reworked her Tanka Tuesday … … Continue reading →
September 13, 2023
Northern Haiku, & Other Canadian Wonders
smoke scents the dry airin a rain-starved wildernessyearning for autumn ** I’m back from two weeks offline, exploring the Canadian mountains near Whistler and the rugged shores of Tofino. I talked poetry with blogger and podcaster Rebecca Budd in Vancouver and shared a lunch with blogger and author Jacquie Biggar in Victoria. They’re just as […]
August 23, 2023
August Book Reviews
I know it’s not quite the end of the month, but it’s vacation time, so I’m leaving you with reviews for 5 awesome reads until I get back … from here: We’re heading north into Canada, to the mountains of British Columbia, and then to the coast for some eagle and bear-watching in Tofino. I’ll […]
August 18, 2023
New Release: The Harbor Pointe Series
Does your Kindle have an inch of space to fill … or eight? Not! But maybe I can tempt you: About six months ago, the Story Empire authors tossed around the idea of tackling a group project, a series of novellas with the same setting: a centuries-old inn on the cliffs of northern California, one … … Continue reading →
August 14, 2023
Interview with Chris James: Military Sci-Fi and AI
For those of you who don’t know Chris James, he’s the author of the military “hard” science fiction series The Repulse Chronicles. Hard sci-fi is a speculative fiction genre based on real science, but it predicts how that science will expand and change in the future. As a reader, what I love about the genre […]
August 8, 2023
The Shadows We Breathe, Vol. 3
Sarah Brentyn has done it again – pulled together a selection of authors to create some stunning short fiction. I’m delighted to have contributed to all three volumes of The Shadows We Breathe and to share my thoughts with you on the latest, Volume 3, released on August 3rd. The other authors are Sarah Brentyn, … … Continue reading →
August 1, 2023
July Book Reviews
Happy mid-summer or mid-winter, wherever you might be roaming these days. We’re getting into vacation mode here with books and hikes planned for later in August. In the meantime, I have some reviews for your to browse. July’s reviews include my 4 and 5-star reads of a poetry collection, a thriller, two memoirs, a short-story […]
