Tag: lake superior
member name: Beryl Singleton Bissell
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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May 25, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
Within three days of my return home last week – after two and half years of practically nonstop traveling since my book, The Scent of God , was released -- I saw two moose lounging off Highway . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
If you've been reading my posts for a while, you'll know that I've been awaiting a "writer's dream." No. It's not making the NY Times best seller list. This dream concerns . . .
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March 03, 2007 11:44 AM EST --
I wrote the below during the midst of a blizzard and then lost my connection for two days. I am finally able to repost with photos.
I am in total awe. We have got massive seas . . .
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June 10, 2006 02:15 PM EDT --
Today is one of those totally blow-your-mind beautiful days on the North Shore – the sky blue, blue without a cloud, the sun's rays striking Lake Superior with such force that the light seems . . .
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September 01, 2006 05:41 PM EDT --
We've been blessed with kind of weather that convinces tourists that there is no more beautiful place on earth than Lake Superior's North Shore. Brilliant warm days filled with cooling breezes . . .
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April 15, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
Travel, Grieving, the Writing Life, Book Reviews, Fictions, Random Musings, all my posts are here for your convenience, especially when the pull-down menus don't work. Please let me know if a link doesn't . . .
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September 30, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
"Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again." John Denver's lyrics waft through my mind as I return to Gather for an intense day of reading and commenting, only . . .
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September 18, 2006 04:40 PM EDT --
On September 18, five years ago, I prepared my daughter Francesca's room. I put fresh sheets on the bed and cleaned her bureau drawers of the paraphanalia that had accumulated . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:11 PM EDT --
This summer, as one week wended toward the next with no sign of rain, many of us believed we'd have little fall color. The trees were too stressed we thought. And, when the color seemed to peak around . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Just couldn't resist posting a few more photos of the incredible ice mountains formed last Thursday and Friday due to the blizzard on Lake Superior's North Shore. My hubby, Bill Christ, was in . . .
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September 16, 2006 01:23 PM EDT --
Warm sun and scintillating breezes propelled us out of the house on September 7 to canoe the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The closest access site is on Sawbill Lake, a mere half hour . . .
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September 29, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
The day the calendar announced fall’s arrival – a pounding rain doused the North Shore. The darkened, cloud-menacing sky that had hovered over the northland for two days sent waters gushing . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:37 PM EDT --
My 11-year-old granddaughter Amber woke recently to a sight that caused her to shout, "Grandmommy, look at the lake. It's covered with ice. I never saw Lake Superior covered with ice before."
It doesn't . . .
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November 28, 2005 04:12 PM EST --
Two years ago my husband and I thought that we would have to leave our Lake Superior home where I've been "putting down roots" for the last eight years. My husband had given up his lucrative . . .
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February 12, 2006 11:45 PM EST --
Before leaving for New York, I hasten to publish one more sequence in the saga of the journey to publication.
In 1998 my husband Bill and I fell in love with a view and decided to sell our Twin . . .
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October 03, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
It looks like our old dog needs some encouragement to take a hike today but don't let appearances fool you. She's been barking her head off, so anxious she is to get going. It's just that sometimes . . .
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August 29, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
I live next to Lake Superior, the second largest fresh water lake in the world. Only Lake Baikal in Russia surpasses her -- not in size because Superior is 19,000 sq. miles larger, but in . . .
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September 22, 2006 06:47 PM EDT --
Fires, that as of this morning, might have been smoldering in the Boundary Waters have certainly been drowned today. We've got ourselves a November storm in September here on the North Shore. I'd . . .
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