June 2020
Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel
Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back centuries where the American West lives on [...]
May 2020
Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread
Five Hundred Forty Loaves of Bread In this Time of Coronavirus, there’s been an uptick in reading, puzzle piecing, game playing, and bread baking as people find [...]
April 2020
This Not-So-Little Light of Mine
This Not-So-Little Light of Mine You might say I’ve always been a walking poster child of Henry Dixon Loes’s classic Sunday School song: This little light of [...]
March 2020
Nine Out of Ten
Nine Out of Ten I won’t ever climb Mt. Everest. After reading Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” the account of the ill-fated 1996 Everest expedition that left [...]
February 2020
January 2020
Word by Word
Word by Word: From 47 Rejection Letters to the Nancy Pearl Award Endurance. Think marathoners, mountain climbers, and triathletes. Lewis and Clark. Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton or [...]
