More than a decade ago this page was a crutch as I limped through parenting a lot of kids…and then one day I just stopped writing. I don’t remember why. Maybe I didn’t need it anymore. Or maybe life defeated me in ways I didn’t want to explain and so I just…didn’t.
To see what I’m writing now, click on my SUBSTACK. Follow along. Let’s see where this goes.
Latest Stories
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When Someone You Know…Becomes Someone You Knew »
We’ve all been there… I’ve had friends…who I loved…who I couldn’t imagine my life without. Friends who were dear to me. Friends…best friends…you thought would stick around forever. And then you move. Or they do. Or something happens and life just leads you in opposite directions. You swear to remain close. You call, you write,…
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Diamonds, Roses, and Rotary Sanders »
They say a diamond is a girl’s best friend…and that’s true for me…if the diamond comes in the form of a sparkly new diamond blade for my sliding compound miter saw! The diamond, chocolate, and fancy card markets peak every holiday as men and women alike run out to buy their dearest ones something that…
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Bear Bait »
On more than one occasion I’ve wondered just how wise it is to hang out in bear country, eating greasy hotdogs next to a salmon spawning ground. And yet every summer we go back to the same old places, nestle down into the paw print covered sandy bank, and sun ourselves with our backs to…
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Alaska Log Furniture »
For more than twenty years I wanted to know how to make log furniture…I’m talking cut the tree down, pack it out of the woods, custom, from scratch kinda log furniture. Not the neatly perfected pieces you find in most furniture stores. I’m talking backwoods…Alaska style. So last summer I did it. Now, mind you, I have…
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Backwoods Bread »
Backwoods Bread I grew up on homemade bread. It was thick. It was soft. It was healthy. It was probably delicious. And I hated it. So when I became a parent myself I swore to give my children only the best store bought, fluffy white bread. But when I acquired a houseful of children who…