by svsauthor | Jun 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am drawn to good simple writing (e.g., William Saroyan, Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, Ivan Doig, James Lee Burke), but once or twice a year I take on an author who I consider complicated. The catch with complicated writing is that I must decide, sometimes in as few...
by svsauthor | Jun 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Clare graduated from college last week. Sometimes personal events are so significant that I have no choice but to write about them. I was half done with a blog about a crow walking a full block down the middle of the street in front of my house, when I realized that...
by svsauthor | May 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
There is one secret fishing spot I have no qualms about revealing to others. It is Reno Bottoms near Brownsville, Minnesota. I mention it because motorboaters can’t get there, fishermen and fisherwomen without boats can’t get there, and anyone fishing from a canoe or...
by svsauthor | May 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just returned from my annual May fishing trip, and the first thing I did after returning home was to move my writing table outside. In the week I was out of town the average temperature seems to have jumped ten degrees, and I am writing this blog from my front...
by svsauthor | May 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
I mentioned to a friend that his name appeared in one of my recent blogs, so he looked at my website for the very first time. He later told me his initial impression of the site was that it had a good feel to it, but he didn’t like the fact that I called our bioregion...
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