A miscellany of random thoughts, geekery, reviews and other mysterious stuff careening around my head.
This year, RV purchases went wild and prices soared astronomically. #VanLife is trending. People are working remote, thinking about their options. It's the post-COVID normal. But if you're living and working in the great outdoors like me, the surge of new, inexperienced campers has posed some unique challenges...
If a person with no understanding of the nomad life walked away from this movie believing the lifestyle was a hellscape, I'd forgive them. There are bad aspects, just as in every human endeavor. But for me, this isn't some tragic happening...
Been a while since I've posted a nomad update. This May will mark three years of living in a box on wheels and I honestly can't think of a better way to spend my time...
This was one of my earliest publications with another disappeared venue, Writer’s Haven. I haven't saved the best for last, more an indicator of how far I've come on this journey. This was a story inspired by a comment from my wife's grandfather. Brief, slightly mysterious, it goes for a slow revelation I have yet to master. And if you squint real close, you'll see Hurricane and Hound...
Thanks to the kind folks over at The Junction, my latest story has found a home...
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Everyone. Internet. 2020.
We must disempower lifestyle vaporware and focus on the real world...
My first instinct was to dismiss his assertion much like I was emptying our RV black tank full of two weeks of excrement into the sewer....
Far from an inconvenient mess, the ordeals all become part of the adventure. New experiences, new places, new faces, a few risks along the way - that's the life we've chosen, the nomad life.
When I set out to write Ace Grant, I wanted to create a wholly American mythology. It needed to reflect our history, not simply write another Western European transplant of faye courts and vikings. Magic existed here long before those cultures arrived. Our story then is one of a fusion of cultures amid a migration full of triumph and tragedy. Complex, sure. But I knew one thing. The protagonists? They didn't look like me...
