You can’t make a living as an artist. That was the refrain that we heard, growing up and making decisions about what school to go to and what to study in the 80’s. Because the starving artist was so engrained in everyone’s mindset. So we went to study a “real…
The first book of the new Dragonspeaker Chronicles series is now available on my website. More info here. This is part of a new series that follows the Ghostspeaker Chronicles but can be read independently. For the writers, I’m trying something new with this series. The Dragonspeaker Chronicles books will…
Exit Kindleboards. Those of you who know me or have read my self-publishing books will know that I’ve been a fan of the Kindleboards as a place where new writers find out about news and best practices. As of this week, I no longer recommend that anyone even goes to…
This is going to be the last post in this series. We went from Indian Canyon to Joshua Tree. Our hotel was in between those two, on the loooooong and very straight road that link the two and crosses the freeway at the ginormous wind farm (windmills still not doing…
The next day it was on to Palm Springs. I have to admit that this is one of the weirdest places I have ever visited, not necessarily in a good way. There were a number of reasons we stopped there. In the first place, we were getting close to the…
On the move again. We visited lookout at the chapel on the hill (Chapel of the Holy Cross) in Sedona. Wonder who lives in that crazy house down there. We came through the creepiest-ever place called Jerome. The building with the red window frames was actually a brothel. I think…
Sedona is just so pretty and not cold, we stayed another day. Here are some more pictures of the amazing scenery.
We started with a walk the next morning. It ended up a bit longer than we intended because there were so many different paths. Walking around Sedona is awesome. I can see how miserably hot it will get in summer, though. We were staying in a suburb called Oak Creek…
Sedona. I have no idea how I came to want to visit this place. No one outside the US talks much about it. I think I started looking at Google maps and thought the map looked interesting and randomly dropped myself into Google Streetview and went “Whoa!” Yup. No one…
We stayed at the Gran Canyon for two days, and walked the entire South Rim trail. There was still a bit of snow around, and quite a lot of people. It was January. It was a weekday. I seriously don’t want to know what this place is like in summer!…
