W hen I decided to combine three, finished novellas into one novel, it was something new to me. It meant three couples, with only one of the...

The big deal for us this week-end will be a Craigslist ad for selling a portion of our cattle herd. We are doing this for the grass but mos...

by Rain Trueax Looking for a new read that is a kind of magical realism just in time for Imbolc? How about throwing in a threat o...

by Rain Trueax   Sonoran Gopher Snake at our Tucson backyard pool. He/she might look scary, but they are very beneficial to the ...

by Rain Trueax I had written the blog for today and then woke up Friday morning to another mass shooting, this time in New Zealand. T...

by Rain Trueax It is hard to believe it's already March, and, we've been in Tucson two months. Where did the time go? The lambin...

  Initially I overcame inertia  by just mixing colors and painting without a plan. I decided  I did not have to paint a meaningful painti...

Getting back to the farm left very little time to think about anything beyond what needed to be done. We had not even totally unpacked the...

My third Oregon historical book was right after the Civil War and involved the beginning of cattle ranching in Eastern Oregon. The region...

As long as I was writing about ranching and wolves, I might as well mention another concern of mine which I probably have written about befo...

Klamath Lake was naturally a marsh area with some lake but became bigger in order to allow irrigation on farm and ranch land. This has led t...

My second surprise on this vacation came while canoeing the Wood River. It is a gorgeous stretch of water, in the Klamath Basin, not very de...