Flashback Friday: The Eyes of the Dragon
I have an obsession with dragons. One that began long before Game of Thrones and George R. R. Martin. A friend and I were talking about this obsession a few weeks ago. We both blame it on Anne McCaffrey, but Read More…
All Aboard the Fail Train
So this enormous, heavy pile 0f crap was our stove and microwave. Even though our place was built in 1991 and has an upgraded kitchen, the kitchen appliances are hideously out of date. And most don’t work. This stove, for Read More…
Directly Proportional to Cats
I’m going to take a break from Flashback Friday this week. My kitty, DiNozzo, is sick, and in honor of him, I’m going to link you to an awesome article I wrote about how my productivity as a writer is Read More…
Adventures in E.R. Land
Sometimes I think that a particular month is comprised wholly of fail, meaning that nothing in it or very little in it has gone well. The month of May was one of those months. It even ended with a bang. Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Empire Trilogy
Raymond E. Feist, author of the quite lengthy Riftwar Cycle series (30 novels and 3 short stories in length), wasn’t my favorite author as a teen. In fact, I stopped reading the Riftwar Cycle somewhere around book 9, Shadow of Read More…
RIP Maya Angelou
Greatness comes in many shapes, many forms, and doesn’t always flout its greatness. In fact, many would argue that the greatest in our world are those that just live. They live as themselves and give of themselves so that others Read More…
My Real Job as Cat Herder
I started this post with the intention to say, let’s be frank as in let’s be honest, but then…cat. So let’s be DiNozzo, here. According to my cats, I am not a writer. My real job is a cat herder. Read More…
Flashback Friday: Gulliver’s Travels
The first time I read Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published in 1726), I was ten. My father and I were up in Michigan visiting my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember it was the holidays, and we Read More…
“It must be nice not having to work…”
In the 17 months since I retired teaching to write full-time, I’ve heard that sentence from more people than I care to mention. Some of them friends and family. Some of them people who want to be writers. The other Read More…
Flashback Friday: The White Raven
I read The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson in 8th grade, with no knowledge that it was a retelling of the Celtic legend about Tristan and Iseult. In fact, I’d never even heard the legend of Tristan and Iseult in Read More…
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