I hope you’ve all had a great week! Mine has been extraordinarily productive. This week I dove, head first, into drafting the chapters for the new novel, Portraits of the Hearthhold. I’m working on chapters

When I heard the news of Lizelle’s passing this morning and it was as if someone knocked the wind out of me. A gut punch, for sure. I hadn’t planned on doing a post on Hive today but felt compelled to

It’s already been five days since I last posted. That’s a strange feeling considering I published a blog here almost every single day for the last decade. It’s growing less strange with each day that goes

Attempting to do difficult things is undoubtedly good for the soul. Even if we don’t accomplish what we originally set out to achieve we end up stretching beyond previously conceived limits, evolving,

We ventured into Minneapolis a few nights ago to celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary a day early with dinner at Esther’s Table and the Beck concert at the Orpheum theatre. The dinner was decent, we

Today I wanted to share a sample story from my new book, Walking With the Muse and a bit of backstory about it. During my decades of writing the spaces I’ve had to create have sometimes been less than

You really don’t ever forget or get over it. Each of us is like a ball of yarn that gathers everything — the joys and hurts, praise and harsh words, triumphs and sins, losses and wins. People can be

I talked a little bit about how I’m trying to actively support other indie authors in a recent post, The Tapering. Well, it seems synchronicity, or the universe, or whatever higher power dictates these

Nights are cooler. The leaves are turning. The squirrels are fattening up and burying acorns as if their lives depended on it (because they do.). This is the time of the year when thoughts turn to warmth

I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for a good fringe-theory or conspiracy. As a Gen-X’r I was raised on old black and white reruns of The Twilight Zone from the 50’s and early 60’s, late night Alfred Hitchcock

It’s so hard to believe that it’s been nearly a month since the launch of my collection of short stories, Walking With the Muse. That first month after a book launch is always extremely intense from both

Here’s a totally frivolous but extremely interesting Grok/AI finding. My late father used to make up or intentionally mispronounce words (it was kind of his thing). One word that he used for “fart” always

I've been listening to JRE Podcast (#2545) with Jesse Michels in bite-sized chunks over the last few days and was introduced to an idea that completely reframed my ideas surrounding the origins of human

Thank you to everyone who’s already picked up a copy of my new book, Walking With the Muse. I’m thrilled to say it’s already surpassing my expectations. It's encouraged me to publish another book next

During this last trip I was reminded of one of the many reasons I love to travel. Solo travel in many ways leaves you more approachable as well as makes you more likely to initiate conversations with

If you read my last post you know I’ve been in Washington D.C. visiting my friend Juan and his wife Margo over the past four days. Juan and I kept a longstanding tradition of going on one weekend trip

I’m preparing for a trip to Washington DC and it’s stirring memories of the past. Sometimes I think the pre-trip planning is as much fun as the actual trip. It’s been well over thirty years since I’ve

Although Minnesota has no shortage of faults, one thing it can still do well is host a fabulous state fair. We have a longstanding tradition of going to the Minnesota State Fair on the very last day, Labor

I logged into my SquareSpace account a few days ago with the intention of adding Walking With the Muse to my Books page and realized something—the old website is in desperate need of tidying up. There’s

Launch day is finally here! Walking with the Muse is out now—a collection of short stories more than thirty years in the making. Thank you for following along these last few weeks. Hive has been the incubator