by kathyellen | Aug 1, 2020 | Writing
Meet the Wild Wests! Have you ever made a snap judgment based on the way someone looked—only to have your opinion completely change? Yeah, me too. This past Spring, during the current health crisis, I had to wonder how a quarantine might create the perfect scenario...
by kathyellen | Mar 14, 2020 | Writing
Growing up, no one told me that Michigan had a west coast. As my father’s daughter, our family would barrel through the center of the Lower Peninsula to get to the real goods, the Upper Peninsula, by way of the mighty Mackinac Bridge. It wasn’t until I turned 20 that...
by kathyellen | Nov 22, 2019 | Writing
Return to Kerby Lodge in Water Dance Water Dance A Lake Michigan Lodge Story CHAPTER 1 “Better lake than never!” KERBY LODGE GUEST BOOK “Merci beaucoup, Señor,” I said to Luke. Luke set a warm cup of Swiss chocolate on the desk in our...
by kathyellen | Aug 12, 2019 | Writing
Want to Write? Work it Like a Job. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been inspired to write. From morning till night I have always had a constant stream of letters, headlines, dialogue, jokes and book ideas running through my head. Trouble is, that’s where most of...
by kathyellen | Jul 8, 2019 | Writing
Taking the Book Out of the Oven As difficult as it was to find the first few words of the book Shoulder Season, it was even more difficult to know when to stop writing. To set down the writing of Shoulder Season and call it done. The book writing process is a new one...
by kathyellen | Jul 8, 2019 | Writing
Why a Lake Michigan Lodge Story? I write about the tourist lodges and resort towns of the Great Lakes because there is no place like them on earth, and I love them. A bit of history: Back in the early 1800s, the population of Michigan exploded tenfold as the auto...
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