Walking along Pope Beach, December 29th. Crystal clear water. Warm sun. Blue skies. The town is filled with ski tourists skiing on what I...

Hey readers, I hope you all have a great holiday filled with - natch - books, whether they be treebooks or ebooks. If you or any of your f...

My blog readers get an early "heads-up" on certain goodies. On Christmas, eight days from when this posts, my most recent bo...

I know, it's winter. But I've thought many times about one of our explorations last fall, a place that's open in the winter, too...

We don't get a lot of fog in Tahoe. But one morning a few days back, we woke up to a thick gray soup. As it happened, I was heading up ...

Whole Foods has gotten a lot of press since the Bezos/Amazon steamroller bought it for 14 or so Billion  dollars. But there's another ...

Some ice like stucco on the walkway Friday morning. Those boards are 2 X 6s. Which means those paw prints are 9 or 10 inches long n...

I've often noticed that people go to see the next Hollywood blockbuster and get enthralled and excited. I also often notice that when ...

Where would one think winter lasts 7 months a year? Greenland, Lapland, the northern parts of Alaska and Russia, the high Alps, Andes, and t...

In the foothills near Jackson, CA lives a woman named Marjorie. She's come to some of my talks, and we've struck up an enjoyable cor...

Left Coast Crime mystery convention is the biggest literary event to come to Reno in a very long time... I'll be writing more about th...

At the Candy Dance Festival three weeks ago where I was exhibiting my books, I spoke to a woman who has read all of my books and been suppor...