This Writer’s Life

The older I get, the more I marvel at technological advances. I wasn’t even two years old when, in October of 1957, the Soviets launched a small satellite and started the race to space. Now we’ve landed astronauts on the moon, and about 10,000 satellites orbit above us. However, for me, the greatest leap forward in technology is the Internet. Without it, I wouldn’t be an author or business owner, and my latest project would be impossible.

“A Humvee parked in front of his house couldn’t mean anything good.” That’s the first line of The Storm Rises, the exciting sidequel to Through the Storm, of the Solar Storms Saga. The series examines the very real possibility of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) destroying modern technology. Why am I mentioning all of this, other than blatant self-promotion? Well—for two reasons.

You may have heard that Mount Rainier has been rumbling with quakes recently. Well, it’s true and I live just fifty miles south of Rainier and thirty-two miles north of Mount St. Helens. You might be thinking, “That wasn’t the best location to buy land.” Well, the simple answer is I never gave it much thought back then beyond, “Wow, living between volcanoes, that’s neat.”