What better way to celebrate the winter solstice, having survived the cold dark hours of the longest night of the year and to greet the return of increasingly longer days, than by baking a loaf of bread? And let me tell you what a joy it is to be able… Continue reading
See that book I’m holding in the photo (don’t look at my hair, please). That’s my novel DARK GREEN, the first in the Mangas County Mysteries series. When I published it last fall I didn’t know it was going to need a subtitle. I mean, I knew that it was… Continue reading
If you haven’t seen the awesome Arnold Schwarzenegger clip about choosing life over hate, please watch it now. It’s a bit over 12 minutes long and worth every second of your time. It might not be aimed at you, but it’s still important to see.
I’ve got lots of news to report but I’m too busy so here’s a raven photo. I call this bird my barn raven, because she/he/it hangs out with my horses. My raven is usually alone even though there are plenty of other ravens that live in and above my valley…. Continue reading
Pesto. Is there anything as good, as rich, as satisfying? Pesto is the stuff of the gods, it is. And I can make it myself! Wait – I just did make it myself! My basil plant was starting to flower. I needed to nip those buds off, but just one… Continue reading
This writing business is hard on a person. The hours of sitting is hard on my back, focusing on the screen for so long messes up my neck and shoulders, typing and typing and typing—or, worse, not typing, but cursing instead. Writing is hard work! But really, the truly hard… Continue reading
It is with a wee bit of sorrow that I bid my Fitbit One R.I.P. It has been a more or less faithful step tracking device for way too short a time (I don’t remember, but maybe a decade?). It was my second one, the first having died as well…. Continue reading
Update: I’ll pass 30K words today on my first draft of the sequel to Dark Green. This will be the second book in the Mangas County Mysteries series As I’m writing I’m keeping the need for a catchy title in mind. I’ve come up with what seems to me to… Continue reading
I just realized none of my book reviews are here, MIA due to me taking so long to rebuild my website after it crashed a while back. I’ve neglected to retrieve the book review blog posts, but at least I know I can, thanks to Wayback Machine. I’m not sure… Continue reading
It’s the heat. I’m losing my mind. It’s a dry heat, to be sure, but it’s still hot. It’s so hot even the weeds are wilted. It’s too hot to work in my studio. The thought of handling fabric when it’s this damn hot is a non-starter. Plus, in an… Continue reading