Most of the snow melted today so I put on my trail shoes, called for the dog and headed out to Nash Road, to run on the Iditarod Trail to Bear Lake and back. The trail is through spruce (or douglas fur; I can never tell the difference) forests and weaves in and out along […]

I woke up to snow today, a slushy, wet snow that made walking the dog wet and gushy. This is what I will soon have to buy. I swore I wouldn’t, but it’s come to that: Yeah, ugly, functional and oh-so sexy. But the snow is lovely, especially against the water. The air is wet and […]

My dog is smarter than I am. She knew, when I tried to coax her out to run in the pouring rain, that it was going to be a miserable and thankless outing. She huddled on the porch. She refused to budge. So I headed out for a supposedly easy 5-mile loop alone. By the time I hit the […]

My weekend was spent doing this: Editing Chapter Four of my novel. It’s a cumbersome, hair pulling, agonizing process, and the next person who says, “Oh, I could write a novel if I could only find the time,” I shall smack alongside the head. I also ran Lost Lake Trail but forgot to charge my digital camera batteries, […]