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Aug.24.2009 Road Trip with Author Sandi Ault While WILD Mystery Author Sandi Ault is avidly researching for her next book, members of the WILD Bunch are contributing guest blogs. This one is from Gillian Driscoll, Ph.D. Road Trip with author Sandi AultBy Gillian Driscoll When I first moved to the west from England 27 years ago (yikes, has it...	Mar.01.2009 The Dead Line I just came out of an extended period in what my staff (The Pack) refers to as "Black Ops." My pack, my friends, and my family all know that when I am on deadline for a book, I don't answer the phone, I don't open my email (I have most of email forwarded to one of The Pack), and, except...
Jan.10.2009 Blown Away Here in the Rocky Mountains, we've had record winds. Over at the tiny hamlet of Ward, not but a dozen miles as the raven flies, they clocked the blasts last week at 108mph. That's hurricane force, by anyone's standards. The weather-person says it's the La Niña jet stream that's causing this...	Dec.10.2008 Solstice We have had days of snow here in the mountains, but this morning, the sun came out and began to shrink the mounds of white and set the glaciers on the roof to dripping at the eaves. The Ponderosa pines—so thankful for the big drink they have waited for nearly the whole fall—celebrate with shiny...
Nov.21.2008 Putting Out the Fire Last week, the time came to make some hard choices. I had felt the moment hovering around my peripheral mindspace for months, the tension building, the confusion and chaos and indecision swirling like mist on the slopes of the mountains right before it snows, warning me that change was coming. It...	Oct.07.2008 Stumbling Down Deer One night last week, a young, four-point buck stumbled onto a narrow stretch of mountain back road a few feet in front of my car. The deer teetered on long, slender legs that failed to move him forward according to his bidding, and he collapsed onto the dirt and gravel, one of his antlers broken,...