The Writers' Circle

I'm a 51 year-old semi-retired grandfather (my wife and I babysit our two grandkids three days a week) who had a career in government finance, before escaping to Providence (the name my wife and I gave to the house and surrounding woods and streams where we now live, outside a little country village).

We also own a chunk of Adirondack forest and a cabin that we built ten years ago, which sits halfway up a hill and looks down upon Holly Lake - we call our camp "Cherryhill". 

Most of the Personal Experience Essays I write come from what lies outside the doors and windows of our home and camp - nature stories that usually teach a lesson - a good and nourishing one. 

I write a nature-related bi-monthly article for a regional body/mind/spirit magazine, which pays me nothing yet has given me a lot of confidence, a deadline, and some self-promotion (it's called the Healing Springs Journal). I write under the name M. Verner Frederick - Verner is my middle name and was my grandfather's name - something I use as inspiration...another story...