I guess I took a break from the blogging for a week plus change.

Life’s moving quickly these past few weeks. I started my job back on August 3oth and just completed my first week. Amy just started school last week Monday, and Athena began her intermediate doggy classes last week. Whew! There hasn’t been much time to settle into a routine.

We just got back last night from the Porcupines Wilderness State Park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s about five, five-and-a-half hours north from Madison and about as secluded as you can get in the midwest. We backpacked back about two-and-a-half miles to a two-bunk (lots of hyphens in this post) cabin, fully stocked with candles, pots and utensils, a saw, and a wood-burning stove. Did I mention it was on a lake and also had a canoe? It was unbelievable. We want to go back for more than a night, but we could only get a single night as it was booked for the rest of the weekend. By the way, “we” included Athena! She loved it. Pictures to come.

Almost finished with Jeff Ford’s book “The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant and Other Stories” . I like most of them but a few stick out as favorites. “Creation” and “The Honeyed Knot” are my favs so far, but I have a feeling I’m going to like “Floating In Lindrethool” (available on SciFi.com) which I just started this morning.

I also checked out Stephen King’s “Wolves of the Calla” on CD from the public library. Twenty-two CDs long. Who has that kind of time? Still, it’s the fifth installment of King’s mostly excellent Gunslinger/Dark Tower series and I really enjoyed the last book, “Wizard and Glass,” much more than I did the third book, “The Waste Lands.”

Writing? I’m bursting at the seams with ideas but I haven’t had much time to get them all down. My goal is to get six old stories out by the end of the month.