Went to Emmaville for breakfast this morning. Its about a 40 minute drive, but there are many breakfast places around Itasca State Park. I enjoy going out for breakfast, probably more than any other meal. But I don’t get pancakes. I’m more of an eggs and meat guy. The place we went to, called Emmaville… [read more…]

We had a hawk in our backyard this morning. Just sitting on the fence, chillin’. There was a squirrel on the ground snuffling for whatever it could find to eat. Neither the hawk nor the squirrel seemed concerned or interested in the other. They got within 5 feet of each other. The clicking you hear… [read more…]

The fires up north have been bad the last few days. Northern Minnesota, specifically in the Arrowhead, has been hit pretty hard. We live about 4 hours south of the fires and the smoke showed up a few days ago. Haziness and the smell of burning tires or plastic–which is weird because, for the most… [read more…]

Dabble is the software I use for writing. For a variety of feature reasons, Word and Google Docs don’t work for me. Some of Dabble features that are useful to me are: They just did a massive rewrite and came out with Dabble V3. This is a major rewrite of an already awesome piece of… [read more…]

As I work through starting up a book layout business, it is time to go back and layout my short story collections for print. As one does before formatting, I reread the Chalk & Memories stories, looking for typos. For those who aren’t aware, typos are self-propagating errors in your text. Sanderson’s Law (if I… [read more…]