Til the Last Hemlock Dies

It took a while, but here's the video from the Jones Gap State Park visit. I'll need to go back and hit the waterfalls there. The pa...

Andy, Carole and I took a brief trip to Jones Gap State Park . We had a picnic, played in the creek, and I went for a short walk in the wood...

Today, a couple of newer videos recording one of our vacations to Florida to explore and kayak some of the large freshwater springs there. I...

I used to read a lot of blogs by writers. Not so much, these days. Because eventually most writers just don't have that much to say abou...

Several of my old writer friends have taken advantage of the self-publishing game to reprint their back list. These are novels that were pub...

I think because due to the influence of my current writing projects I had a really weird dream last night. In it, Santa Claus and Rudolph (t...

Here in Charlotte it just doesn't snow that often. Fewer and fewer snow days down here in the Piedmont as the effects of human-caused gl...

A few years ago I went on a hike in the Big Ivy Roadless Area in Pisgah National Forest. Roadless areas are just that...places in the fores...

When I was a very, very young kid (six or seven years old) my two best pals were Catholic brothers of roughly the same age. One day they ta...

The old subconscious works on us in our dreams, for sure. I don't normally dream about the past, but I did last night. I dreamed tha...

My online pal Michael Hodges , author and wildlife photographer, has now seen publication of his second novel, THE INVASIVE . Another monste...

When I was a young man working to become a professional writer I would encounter many people like me who were also trying to capture the sam...

Everyone is quite aware of the big animals that have gone extinct around us in historical times. And no one who is sane and reasonable would...

Here are some recent video creations while I continue to work on the new novel. (Older trips, but recently created video from footage shot s...

On the last day of our short vacation to Stony Fork Recreation Area Carole and I took a kayaking trip down the New River. The New River is, ...

Most people have never heard of many things. They have always been ignorant and remain so. The descendants of the people who exterminated...

After I hiked the War Spur Trail, Carole and I drove to take a look at a National Forest facility called White Rocks Campground . It's a...

I have visited the Mountain Lake area a number of times. And every time I go up there I always mean to hike the War Spur Trail to the overlo...

Well, Carole and I stole a few days, hooked up the Casita travel trailer and provisions and headed up to the mountains of western Virginia t...

Carole and I are going camping and kayaking for a few days. To the mountains of Virginia. We hope to do some kayaking on the New River. We b...