Road Writer Blogs

Tag: Rocks Minerals and Fossils

  • Wishing for Something to Give Away

    There is always some impetus that drives or beckons a person to do what they do.  For some people, that might be hunger, literal or metaphorical.  For others it might be attention, or influence, or power.  For some, perhaps wealth or comfort of living. Me?  I have always hoped to give something away that others…

  • Time in Minnesota

    Isn’t time interesting?  We don’t really know what time is or where it comes from, but, as we grow older, we start to feel its irreversibility.  What’s more, we humans love to write and read stories that play with time, perhaps more commonly than any other science-fictiony idea. Mary and I encountered time on our…

  • Science Fiction and the RoadWriter Life,  Part 1:  Finding Trilobites

    Today I’ve been thinking about what makes science fiction, science fiction (spurred by my recent publication of a ghost story-science fiction crossover, “A Visit from Old Earth”, in S’more Spooky Stories, published by Owl Hollow Press).  Thinking about science fiction makes me think about trilobites (of course), long abandoned barge canals, and my campervan. Let…

  • Spontaneity:  Joy of the Road!

    My wife and I began planning our joint retirement four years in advance (calling those four years our freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of retirement, building up to a sense of beginning rather than ending).  As the senior year marched toward graduation, we decided that it would be great fun to get a little…