Every printed word stands for a thousand words of practice. Every relished story casts a hundred memories adrift. These are the Backstories, a treasure of thoughts, feelings, experiences, woven into narrative tapestry that makes us who we are.
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Writing The Beekeeper’s Question was a decade-long project during which time I was taking out library books, buying text books on-line, digging around in the World War II museum, Wikipedia, and interviewing a 100-year-old veteran. I was tas...
Shaking the Family Tree for Story
I grew up among men and boys named Leo. A grandfather, father, cousins, brother, nephew, all with Leo first or second in their names. It was common in the family, but not so common in a generation of Jims and Bobs, Dannys and Bills.
“Leo,”...
Three are lost, two remain.
Decades ago, in an amazing college course entitled, “Initiation Mysteries in Literature,” two eccentric and brilliant professors led us in the study of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck as a visual map of esoteric wisdom. It gave me an early respe...
The Author’s Journey
The book did great. The story made new friends, was passed hand to hand, autographed, installed in bookstores where it had not previously found a shelf. Cassiopeia Books in downtown Great Falls made The Beekeeper’s Question the store’s book...
Standing on the Land/Kneeling on the Ground
I live on a 10,000-year-old sandbar pressurized into a squiggly 45-milelong island by the Ice Age and now in the process of slowly eroding into Puget Sound. Makes for cobblestones and sandy stretches at low-tide, mostly Canadian soil pushed...
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Novelist and pioneer in the field of personal writing. The Beekeeper’s Question is my debut novel and capstone work. Join us at my new blog Backstories, a story-fire, where we practice respectful engagement and bring those words in waiting to light.
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