While I’m far from a gourmet chef I’m fairly handy in the kitchen and occasionally like to experiment with new recipes and ingredients. Recently I’ve undertaken the mission to learn how to cook beans in a way that I like. No easy task, seeing as Read More …
Calm down! The title of this post isn’t a mafia reference and no writers have been whacked! I recently decided to take up fish keeping again after many years without an aquarium and am now the proud owner of a beautiful Betta Splenden named Moonfire. Read More …
My dogs provided me with an amazing insight about writing and productivity the other day. Like most pooches, my dogs sometimes get chews to play with, often in the form of antlers. Cleo, my littlest dog, often decides that the most desirable chew to have Read More …
Doing laundry on a day when you have nothing to do but write and get a few things done around the house seems like such a good idea. Hey, laundry takes nothing right? You put it in, the machine does its thing for an hour Read More …
My dogs have surprising insights about writing. Granted, I never approach them for advice on developing a character. I wouldn’t consider asking their opinion on my latest plot twist either, and they are far from experts on word choice since “woof”, “bark”, “whine”, and “Give Read More …
Yesterday I put on a one day Comic Con at the library where I work, in my secret identity as a librarian. A goodly number of months in the making, WyoCon, as I deemed it, was a great success! We had about 216 people attend Read More …
If you’re both a reader and a gamer, as I am, you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of finishing a novel, setting it down and thinking to yourself, “Dang. Someone should really make a video game out of that.” I think we can all agree that Read More …
In that moment I wonder…am I truly alive? A variation on this question has been asked by many a computer and automaton over the years in fantasy and science fiction. Whether its the little boy in AI: Artificial Intelligence, AIDEN in Illuminae, or even the Read More …
