I don’t normally do book reviews, but I want to say a few words about this book and its authors. Mary Akers is the first person I interviewed for the Writer Profile Project back in March of 2007. As my guinea pig, she was very graceful and forgiving of my newbie awkwardness. It was great […]

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It’s strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on.
If the desert […]

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If someone told you his pet dog was the only witness to his wife’s mysterious death and he was going to teach it to talk so it could tell him the secrets he wanted to know, what would you think?
So begins Carolyn Parkhurst’s enchanting novel of love, sacrifice and human darkness. But the quirks don’t […]

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Enter a world where starkness abounds. Here, the land is desolate, the people austere. Here, lives are restricted, restrained, waiting, waiting. Here is Holt, Colorado, and everywhere, in everyone, there emanates inexplicable beauty.
Meet the McPheron brothers, owners of a cattle ranch and father figure to Victoria Roubideaux, a single mother they took in when she […]

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Consider:
It’s not your first trip, not even your second. In fact, you’ve done this trip a lot. You’ve spent entire nights sitting in Denny’s clenching your jaw and eating chicken strips with ranch dressing. But this trip is different. You’re taken to some party. It’s way out in the country and while you’re driving there […]

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