Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 7 - 10.5 Megan and I kicked off the USA leg of our trek by way of I-5 south to US-2 (to avoid Seattle traffic mayhem) from which we jumped onto I-90 around Spokane and headed east. Summer storms were making a racket in the Midwest and down South so we agreed … Continue reading The Wall
My brother and I are book nerds. Shamelessly. We finish 1 book and we add 15 to our lists. Normal people look at 15 books and think "ugh, why so many;" we see 15 and think "sweet, I'm good for four months." (Come now, fellow nerds, you know you do it.) For pleasure reading, I prefer classics … Continue reading Book Nerds Unite
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 5 & 6 The historic area on the other side of the Canadian-US border opened up to a impeccably flat farming landscape (easily the greenest place I'd ever seen). Megan called her relatives and after getting turned around (and greeting a bunch of cows His Highness mistook for giant dogs that … Continue reading The Green Queen
When I was a little girl, I drew exclusively with #2 pencil on notebook or computer paper. I had zero art software. My family had been slow on the computer acquisition thing (we used a typewriter through middle school, 1998-2000) and there were a lot of us kids so, once we bought a computer, we couldn't use … Continue reading My Art Style’s Evolution
Megan and I used a tiny blue notebook to keep track of times we saw animals and reached places between Fairbanks, AK, and Bellingham, WA. We didn't have a plan about what we wanted to record, we just wrote down stuff as it happened. Looking at the little book after a year, we laughed. We could see the steady drop in our sanity, focus and willingness … Continue reading Our Itty Bitty Logbook
Alaska to Florida Adventure: Days 3 & 4 If you've been following along, you know my best friend and I magically made it from Fairbanks, AK, to British Columbia without any major mishaps. The weather was still gorgeous, His Highness hadn't escaped to play with nature, the car worked and we had plenty of sustenance (our stash: … Continue reading The Swedish Bakery & Some Luxurious Bees
I once read that being a fiction writer is like being a schizophrenic actor because authors can play multiple people in a single scene each with distinct personalities, speech patterns and emotional states without letting them blur into one another. The simile made me smile. Growing up as a shy kid, I'd never had an interest in acting aside … Continue reading Lessons in Writing from Improv Comedy
I have two projects that I am determined to complete before the fall semester begins: My first novel-length work of fiction Vol. 1 of a graphic novel series I can't work on one story at a time. I absolutely need 2 rolling at once. This way, when I need a break from one, I can switch to … Continue reading Summer 2016 Projects
Guess what? It’s story time! Or rather, it will be very soon. Storytelling is fun—whether it’s about imaginary people or outrageous stuff that happens in real life. Adventures with friends are my favorite kinds of stories and I aim to share a whole mess of them. This month is the 1-year anniversary of Summer Road Trip … Continue reading My Next Journey Begins!
Duri Rolvsson 