My Musical Journey, The Early Years
I come from a very musical family – at least on my mother’s side. My father couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, and only sang two songs that I can remember. “How Dry I Am” and “Don’t Jump off…
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The origins of Shiral: The evolution of Camp Llywelyn
My great grandfather was a college professor. An extremely successful local businessman was unhappy with his sons’ performance in college, and hired my great grandfather to tutor the sons during the summers. He and his family spent their summers in…
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Adventures with Neighbors
My mom’s best friend was our neighbor, Marie. Her husband also left her up on the island while he traveled back and forth due to work, and the three of us spent a lot of time together, often combining our…
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Adventures in fire-starting.
On cold, rainy days, our only source of heat in the main cabin was an old pot-bellied stove. However, it can be difficult to light fires when everything is wet, so we often resorted to adding some lamp oil to…
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Boating Adventures
The picture is of my childhood playground. This particular story took place primarily on the far right of the image, in what we call the open lake. Walt and I used to love doing what I call boat surfing. You…
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The Root Beer Cannon
As my readers know, Shiral is the home planet of Shi’ahn, the main character in The Universe Cycle. What you don’t know is that it is based on a real place. Every year, not long after school was out for…
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Read an e-book, save a tree!
In the coming weeks, we’ll be launching a campaign to save my tree farm, Ganderhawk Forest. For now though, I wanted to show you what I’m trying to save.
Coming soon!
I’m just getting all of the content in place and sharing some of the important things about my books, but in the meantime, please head on over to my Amazon page and pick up the first two books of my series,…
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