Til the Last Hemlock Dies

I love camping in wilderness areas. Especially in wilderness areas that are not really popular and which remain uncrowded. More than anythin...

I'm busy on a writing project so I can't post much this week. I'll run some photos from old hikes. In March 2005 I hiked to the ...

Back in 2005 I took one of my Black Mountain Crest Trail solo backpacking trips. As I recall, I pretty much had the whole trail to myself. I...

In early 2005 I was still trying to locate the Sag Branch Poplar. Initially I only had a vague idea of where it was. Later, Will Blozan of ...

I was sifting through older digital photographs today and happened upon a number from hikes at one of my very favorite places: The Black Mou...

Man, the weather has surely been different this winter than last one. This winter...well, we haven't even had a winter. The past two wee...

I saw this piece of art online years ago and copied it. The work is by a comic book artist who I recall from the 1970s. His name was Bill...

Back in 2003 I was just getting my old hiking wanderlust rekindled. One of my first trips back to get into finding the old solitude again wa...

Here's a story I wrote long, long ago. It never saw print. For the first time on the Internet. This is a pared down version that I submi...

When there is no more room on your bookshelf, buy the Kindle version of THE LIVING END ! "Finally! A zombie novel with brains, as well ...

I have another author interview appearing on the Internet. This one conducted by novelist Billie Sue Mosiman . You can read it here .

This waterfall (it has no name) was pretty much my favorite one of the day. It was below Yucca Falls and was part of an extensive series of ...

The actual eye of one of the world's largest birds. Much as I imagine the eyes of Titanis walleri to have looked in my novel, THE FLOCK ...

Brenda Wiley made this GPS graph of our hike on Sunday. You can see why we were all so tired by the time the hike was done. We gained, lost,...

Between my day-job and my writing job I have hardly any time to myself. That is, I don't have much time to pursue my hobbies and other i...

I went hiking yesterday with some friends. Andy, Jack, Johnny, and Brenda. Johnny Corn had suggested that we head over to Table Rock State P...