Carl Grimsman

My early Trumansburg, New York years were times of nurturing the spiritual fire of constancy that had ignited in me. These cozy, country seasons, filled with community, nature, and deep introspection, led to a spiritual breakout that would thrust my life in a kinetic new direction.

A life of spiritual work pumping in his blood, a half dozen years of ceremony propelling, to where spirits of ancestors were calling, the author embarks from Upstate New York to Arizona. This story cycle in poem, picture, and prose relates the author's first months in a wondrous new land, at once mysterious, foreign, and foreboding, yet welcoming, where he rooted and continues to grow, now twenty years on.

In 1880 Arizona, during the last days of the free Apache, sixteen-year-old Caleb Harned stumbles upon a lost and injured Indian girl. Resolving to help, he hides her at his family's ranch.But hostile forces gather-cavalry chasing renegade Indians, bounty hunters, and townsfolk who threaten the couple's budding love. Then the young woman vanishes, and Caleb is heartbroken.His search for her leads him to the Dragoon Mountains, where the Apaches are converging, and then into danger as he fights to steal her back. But will her people open the way for him-the son of a white man-and share their deepest secret? He only has until the moon is full, or he'll lose her forever. APACHE PORTAL is a historical fantasy, brimming with Western adventure, romance, and mystery.

Indian arrowheads have been turning up in the fields since before Grampa's time, but no one imagined the secret that would reveal itself to Barbara.In the summer of 1948, Barbara Reilly discovers something truly magical in the woods of her parents' farm. Her stunning encounter calls her to make decisions that defy the wishes of others. Events set into motion invite a dark invasion to the wholesome upstate New York family.As danger descends, Barbara is the only one fully aware. What sort of power can a thirteen-year-old girl summon, to stand up to the threat? What help can she hope to muster, through her connection to another girl, from the distant past, who lived and struggled on the same land?BARBARA REILLY is a historical fantasy woven with mystery and courage.For age 12 and up.