Join me for reflections and stories from Yellowstone’s wilderness—lessons from the trail for life revealed through grace, truth, and wild places.
Waking Up in the Wilderness: A Yellowstone Journey
Are you an armchair traveler, outdoor adventurer, or national park enthusiast? Are you ready to trek across Yellowstone through the pages of a book?
If so, this may be the book for you.
It’s more than an adventure story about me and my family doing what we love in a place we love with people we love. It’s a sign pointing beyond all that and saying, “Look at this!” so you can see what there is to see for yourself.
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My 5 Favorite Yellowstone Stops
After a summer of working in Yellowstone and forty-five years of (almost!) annual visits to the park, a trip to Yellowstone feels like going home. This is at once a blessing and a curse. With so many places to revisit, check in on, and catch up with, it’s hard to branch out to new things. Here are a few of my favorite Yellowstone stops. My...
The Wilderness: Teeming with Life
Not far into a long trudge over a snow-packed boardwalk, our snowcoach-driver-turned-Yellowstone-guide stopped and stooped down. My husband and I, along with six other snowcoach travelers, halted behind him. Surrounded by emerald and sapphire geothermal pools set in the ground at West Thumb Basin, our group huddled together against the cold...
Glimpses of Goodness and Glory
a few glimpses of goodness and glory at the end of fall snow sleep bookstores cats & dogs sunshine air travel Yellowstone a great book launch 2 weeks in Yellowstone glorious fall days much needed rain the first fire of the season insurance and physical therapy birthday brunch with the family the sound of silence positive responses to my book...
Waking up in the Wilderness is honored to be included in the Inspired by Yellowstone Artist Series.
“There is a great deal of good to be learned from what we see every day, if we would but consider it.”
~ Matthew Henry
