Animals You Find on the Trail: The Importance of Maintaining Distance
Into the woods on another adventure This can be more difficult than it seems depending upon the beast. Sometimes you don’t notice them until you’re in front of them. We’ve …
Finding the Unique Voice for Your Memoir: Are you a Hemingway or a Fitzgerald?
Hemingway says: to write “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” I’ve been thinking about voice for my memoir about attending college while raising five young …
Nutrition on the Trail: The Lunchtime Saga
Of course they’re tired on the trail. It was the third week of peanut butter and jelly. Many times we camp as a family …
The Importance of Silence
I like to lose myself in the beauty of nature when I can. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the importance of silence in life. True, it’s probably because I don’t …
Weather Changes Suddenly in the Mountains: When Hiking with Children Be Prepared
The Alpine Visitors’ Center at Rocky Mountain National Park Here we are in the winter season, and as the children say their nightly prayers, they slip in a prayer for …
Exploring the Inner Self in Memoir
Santa puts the tinsel on the tree! I need to show my hard-won epiphanies through self-reflection. I need to present my memoir in ways to allow readers to enter upon …
Camping with Kids: Keeping Clean at Camp
It’s tough camping with four independent young ladies. No, they help out at camp, as much as they can. No, they don’t complain on the trail…much. It’s the showering. Just …
The Importance of Internal Dialogue in Memoir
Remember, memoir is not autobiography. Memoir recounts an important time in the writer’s life, an important journey, happy or sad, triumphant or not, where a …
Keeping Children Safe in Crowded Vacation Areas
Disney World and balloons, a great combination Now about that other time when the twins were five. We were visiting one of America’s best playgrounds for families: Disney World in …
Ellen Gable Hrkach, Historical Catholic Fiction Writer
Welcome, everyone, to my Adventures in Writing Blog. I am honored to have with me today Ellen Gable Hrkach, an award-winning historical Catholic fiction writer. Ellen has published 4 …