The Importance of Soap When Camping with Teens
Upper Peninsula Lake Michigan It didn’t rain every day! Spring makes me think of rain used to awaken the earth from its winter slumber. …
The Need for a Book Synopsis to Clear the Brain
Journaling about Spring Did you ever get to the point that you’ve been looking at the same material over and over and perhaps it was time to step back and …
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 …