This is why we can’t have nice things, Christmas edition.So one of my mother’s favorite Christmas desserts, and a holiday tradition in our house for many years, is red velvet cake with boiled buttercream.  I’ve never been a big fan; the frosting i…

Tis the season for … frantic commercialism?  Perhaps not, but if you’re looking for a gift to give to support a starving artist, perhaps consider:My contemporary fantasy novel FlowORThe traditional music of Rolling Of The Stone, from Scottish to…

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.  Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.  You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. — Neil Gaiman So… Getting some…

(It’s been a crazy few weeks and my work schedule has been temporarily flipped around, which means I’m working my normal ten hour shift on Wednesdays … hence the lack of a mid-week post.)I posted a few weeks ago about my recent short story publicatio…