On 7/29/19 I’ll be taking my brown-bag lunch to the Sioux Falls studio of South Dakota Public Broadcasting for a noontime chat with Lori Walsh and her “Brown Bag Book Club” on “In the Moment.”…
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You haven’t heard from me for a while. Sorry about that. Hope you’re okay in your corner of the world. Truth is, my winter was long. Life closed in; was often dark and unpredictable. Our…
I’m recently arrived home from a sojourn with my family in the Smoky Mountains, which are so old and awash in trees, they look like an undulating sea of waves. These images were taken on…
I’m now wearily, happily, home from Costa Rica. My silence during the final few days of my trip was due largely to exhaustion from so many beautiful hikes in the cloud forests around Monteverde and…
Tomorrow I leave the coast of Costa Rica and its gorgeous sunsets for the cloud forests of Monteverde. I invite you to enjoy some of my sunset photography. Just for fun, which of these four…
Playa Carbon is a sparkling black-sand beach only fifteen minutes by boat from Tamarindo, Costa Rica. My guide Henry anchored in its cove the other day so we could snorkel and eat ceviche. The…
Who knew that the outgoing tide could paint the sand with such delicacy? Here are just a few “landscape portraits” I discovered yesterday afternoon on the beach at Tamarindo, Costa Rica. A low tide gallery…
I grew up in the Eastern woodlands of Ohio. We didn’t eat much fish beyond the occasional perch and bluegill we caught in our farm pond. As an adult I’ve never developed a taste for…
By a very strange series of events, I find myself in Costa Rica for two weeks. Not bad, eh? Except that I had to leave behind my husband and son in South Dakota. The morning…
I’ve been asked to help spread the word that I’ll be among the presenters at the upcoming Great Plains Writers’ Conference at South Dakota State University. I know you’ll forgive my dutiful self-promotion. Perhaps you’ll…
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