Futurescapes is almost here! I’m headed to the airport today, bound for Utah and the Futurescapes Writers’ Workshop. I’ve been looking forward to this working retreat for a good while, and I remain grateful to everyone who helped make this possible for me. While in Utah, I will receive feedback from my peers and faculty […]
Well, golly. I hadn’t realized I’d let a year and a half roll by without posting the books I’d been reading. Maybe I need to set a regular calendar reminder or something so I can be doing this on at least a quarterly basis. Anyway, here’s what I’ve been reading. I keep trying to push […]
M has been feeling under the weather lately and I’ve been trying hard not to catch his cold. I’ve made a “cure-all” Côte d’Azur soup in the past and wanted to try making a heartier version of this in the Instant Pot Mini. Also, I had the last night’s leftover chowder for breakfast this morning, […]
At the end of last year, my partner and I jumped aboard the Instant Pot craze with an Instant Pot Mini, and we’ve used it nearly every day since. I love to cook, and I’m frequently more interested in inventing new things and adjusting existing recipes than following someone else’s instructions exactly. And as I […]
Someone just posted to Facebook a news story about a school shooting in Kentucky. Two people dead, multiple people injured. It turned out that the poster had misread the date on the article and thought that this had just happened today, when it happened in late January instead. And it still broke me. For a […]
It has been pointed out to me that as a writer/author, I should be posting an annual “what I released this year” blog entry. Since I didn’t do this for 2017 (or ever, yet), here’s my publishing round-up for 2017 a mere six weeks late. Books Urban Fantasy: Valhalla Raven Quest (January 2017)* The fourth […]
I’ve taken to wearing a spoon pendant lately. You might have noticed it in the video I made for my GoFundMe campaign to support my participation in the Futurescapes Writers’ Workshop. The story behind the spoon is a simple one, but it’s important. The spoon pendant is actually a pin that my friend Wendy Wagner […]
