A woman and her Harley in Colorado — For six hours, I rode into the Rocky Mountains and back. I learned a lot about the machine. I felt like I got to know Dreamcatcher — my black Harley Street 750 — a lot better. I’m not as good at curves as I thought. Leaning down low like my…

9 reasons I found in America to believe in domestic travel — Your country can satisfy a foreigner’s wanderlust. Why not yours? Every time you leave your country, you learn more about the nation from which you came. But every time you travel within your country, you learn more about what you don’t know. I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado…

My road blocks and break throughs to becoming a happy reader. — You’re not alone if you wish to get into reading. I don’t know how long it will take you, but it took me about a year and a half. At first, it was halting. …

The pilot behind dark fantasy fiction & bright nonfiction here on Medium — Ms. Uland lives in Denver, Colorado, but boomerangs around several continents as a pilot. Her travels in this world inspire and inform her stories, but her work is also inspired by roots in pure fantasy. …

When someone complicated dies in a complicated way. — by Savanna Rain Uland We flew together from Kansas to South Africa. Picture a man who, even with dementia, had four things going for him. One, he still adored his wife. He remembered her vividly to the pound. …

Pilots’ 3 personality types — “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” — Al McGuire Why Do They Fly? Sometimes people love the same thing you do for different reasons. I became a flight attendant, then a pilot, because of an obsession in the core of my being for travel. Yet I quickly realized…

Plus the plot question no one can answer me — One childhood later, I finally read a classic fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin. So I Finally Did It I finally read a book by the titan of American Fantasy & Science Fiction. Or, as Ursula K. Le Guin preferred, of American literature. I can say I enjoyed it. But I have one burning question…

Writing Guidelines & How to Submit — Are you a book blogger? Excellent. Send us your stories. What are We Looking For? The Fiction Social Club is a place for people who love to read, especially fiction. We come here to get excited about special books and about reading itself. Nay, life itself! It’s a place for them to laugh with like-minded…