We were hiking in the woods the other day and came upon a couple with two German Shepherds. The dogs wore goggles. While we watched, o...

Local writer/artist/photographer Jared Manninen has a newish (at least to me) website about trails in the Tahoe area. It is called Tahoe ...

Go early. For driving, parking, hiking, boating, biking, eating. In the first seven days of my new book launch, I've been around the...

The last two days, Cal Fire and the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning for extreme fire danger. Not just Tahoe, but most of ...

Tahoe. While the rest of the West and Southwest bakes in monster heat (Sacramento, CA 105 degrees, Redding, CA 112 degrees, and Palm Sprin...

Writers are eager - sometimes even desperate - to find help with all aspects of writing and publishing. As a result, we often sign on for, a...

Hi Everybody! My schedule for my new book release is now (mostly) set. I've organized my appearances by area. So you can scan down ...

A new study by some scientists at the universities of Cambridge and Auckland shows that crows can figure out problems better than nearly any...

We humans have a small-but-regular assorment of bad individuals among us. We've developed a lot of techniques to identify the bad eggs. ...

We've seen porcupines in Tahoe, but those sightings are rare. Yet on a recent hike, we encountered the biggest porcupine we've ever ...

Last summer, my wife and I saw a coyote pup wandering past our house, below our deck. It was small enough that we worried it didn't have...

Last winter, I looked out the kitchen window and saw a really large cat walking through the snow. After a moment, I thought it was too large...