Some time back, one of our local doctors came to a signing and brought her Great Dane. I didn't know she was coming, but she had email...

 Midwest Born and Raised, California Aged... This describes me and a lot of others. There is a huge contingent of California reside...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the notion of talent and how people misapply the word to describe skillful authors who have wo...

Let's say you're a storyteller and you earn your living by arranging words on paper or computer screen. Unless you're a journa...

Every author I know has had this experience. You do a signing, a talk, or some other event, and a person comes up and says that they would...

We had a recent bear incident, which reminded me of an evening a couple of years ago when I went for a “ride-along” with Truckee Police Se...

Not every day do you get an amazing science lesson during lunch. Most days, I eat lunch at the computer, or I take a sandwich in the car ...

In the Midwest, you will see a popular T-shirt that shows a picture of a large Anopheles Mosquito. Above the amplified, scary-looking bloo...

This week I drove down to Sacramento for an interview on CapRadio's Insight program. (CapRadio, for those of you who don't have a...

M ore  than a few times, I’ve met visitors at the end of their vacation in Tahoe, and I learned that they never saw Emerald Bay. Not only i...