Hi, everyone,
Welcome to my website! I live outside of Rapid City, South Dakota, in the beautiful Black Hills – think “Mount Rushmore,” “Crazy Horse Memorial” and “excellent rock climbing.” Not that I climb; I’m a big fan of solid ground. I hike, though, and ski and, though I haven’t been out on a lake in a while, I have a sailboard and know how to use it.
My husband Jeff Nelsen and I moved back here in 2002, to the place where we met over 20 years ago while we were students at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. We shared a physics class in 1988, and that was that – two 38-year-old students who fell crazy in love over calculating trajectories and coefficients of friction. When we graduated in 1991, we moved to Minneapolis/St. Paul where the job market was better than it is here in South Dakota, and we bought our first home in Apple Valley, close to where Jeff’s son Ryland lived and where his daughter Meghan went to school.
While we enjoyed life in the city, it was ultimately too big for us, so we came home ten years later. My office looks out over a meadow where horses graze, and whitetail deer and wild turkeys routinely cross our yard as they wander into the gully next to our home in search of whatever it is they eat. We’re happy here, and it shows. I’ve recently completed my second novel, Through Dark Spaces, and am nearly finished with the first draft of a third.
I hope you’ll look around this site. You’ll find a short story or two, some of my favorite photographs, and a spot where you can sign up for my semi-annual newsletter. Thanks again for stopping by.
Best regards,
Karen
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