It’s Mother’s Day here in the States, so I thought I’d post a photo of my mom, on the right, enjoying a typical evening with her pal Sylvia Aakre. It occurs to me that my idea of a fun time just might be hereditary. Mom met Sylvia at university, where they were both studying to […]

My longtime friend Nadine Panache is a badass baker.  For my birthday one year she created a cake of a sculpted Dracula lying in his sculpted coffin.  (I was born around Halloween)  For another friend, born on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, she built a sinking Titanic going down by the bows, with little […]

I am gradually uploading my ebooks to Google Play.  They’re not all uploaded yet, but they should be within the next week or so. I haven’t moved my stuff onto Google for a number of reasons, among them (1) I’m still mad at Google for trying to glom the copyright of every living writer in […]

The other day, I wrote a few pages.  And when I looked at them, they struck me as mediocre. They weren’t bad, mind you.  They got the job done, they got my protagonist where she needed to go.  But they didn’t sparkle, they didn’t fizz, and when I read them I didn’t hear the little voice […]