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Read more about my novel, Making It Work, here. Check out my dime novels here. My mother had two four-tier shelves filled with her hard-covered books. Above these bookshelves hung the photo of Mount Rainier that appears on my home page. I grew up in Minneapolis and never saw mountains, but I associated them with reading. She never censored what I chose to read.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017. Too young to hold on, too old to just break free and run. The title of this post is a lyric from songwriter Jeff Buckley. It always struck me, but I never fully felt it until now. Oh, and a week l.

When in Doubt, Go Higher. Life is better Off Yonder. Notes from a ski town just north of Ciudad Juárez and just south of Banff. Thoughts at the intersection of people and place, being and belonging in the desert Southwest. Hoodoo prowls the hidden boundaries of our explorations. Mary Sojourner writes from the ragged perimeters of desert, mountains and the lost human heart.

The Storms of Denali Excerpt. I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experiencedthe real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always. Sign up for our Email Newsletter.