In Tahoe, as with everywhere else in the northern hemisphere, the two darkest months are over. Like Owen McKenna, I don't like long w...

I'm writing this note as I sit inside our car in Hope Valley. Across a snowy meadow, 200 yards away, I can see my wife standing at her ...

The other day, my wife and I went out to one of the great Sierra beauty spots on a winter day when the sun was bright, the wind calm, and t...

I've written before about how a mountain lion looking at a house cat only sees lunch. But a large dog looking at a tiny dog only sees a...

Wow, 2014 in a couple of days! The New Year is a good time to 'fess up to the tr uth, right? Okay, here goes a myth buster.  In many ...

Come Christmas Day, my latest book, Tahoe Chase, will be available as a free Kindle download. Please visit the page and add it to your Kind...

In the fiction workshop I taught a few weeks ago, we spent a lot of time working on first sentences. Why? Because the first sentence of a n...

Out on the deck Saturday morning. It was still snowing, and it continued to snow lightly all day. Using the official Stick-A-Measuri...

Okay, so our current snowfall accumulations have been a bit bleak. Truth be told, totally bleak. But our areas have awesome snowmaking. G...

Last week I taught another 3-day workshop at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center called: The Hook, The Twist, and The Cliffhanger What W...

When I do events, people always ask me if I have a “real” Spot and if so, why don't I bring him to my talks? I tell them that we'...

People often think that it must be hard to actually sit down and force yourself to write. The truth is the opposite. All you need to know ...