Or: Can you hear the bottles sing? Author’s Note: This week I am sharing the notes I took on a recent trip to Death Valley National Park with my friend Rose. You can read my report from Day One here, and Day Two here. Thursday, February 7 2013 Driving, it seems, is the way to get around Death …
Or: A land of rock and wind. Author’s Note: This week I am sharing the notes I took on a recent trip to Death Valley National Park with my friend Rose. You can read my report from Day One here, and Day Three here. Wednesday, February 6th 2013 I did not make it to Titus Canyon. I …
Or: Driving through nowhere to get to somewhere. Author’s Note: I recently took a trip to Death Valley National Park, which lies on the eastern border of California. I went there ostensibly to do research for a story, but also because I’ve always loved the outdoors and I really wanted to visit. I went with …
It is about an hour past midnight, in the wee hours of Christmas morning. The parents are safely asleep, and so I have just gotten back from creeping out into the living room and leaving them a little surprise in the stockings left hanging over our (entirely traditional) Christmas Victrola. Since I know neither of …
Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., and I am hiding in my room. Soon I will go and place the massive Death and the Cat print order, but first I want to tell you about something silly that happened. Last weekend when I was tidying up my bathroom I came across a bauble I had purchased …
There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for how I ended up in a Chinese dumpling restaurant outside Toronto singing Jonathan Coulton’s Still Alive a cappella with Amber Scott to a table full of bemused women. It goes something like this: On Wednesday my Wonderful Mother and I flew to Toronto for World Fantasy. World Fantasy …
I have lately found myself giving the URL for this website to all sorts of people, and for all sorts of publications, and I realize that at first glance it may appear a sadly stagnant and deserted house. This is not the case. For as the atheist likes to say: lack of proof of one …
What: AnthroCon Where: Pittsburgh, PA, USA When: June 14th-16th 2012 Report: As previously described, AnthroCon is a furry convention, which means it’s about three times as fun as any other kind of convention. It has a special place in my heart, as it was my first ever fur con, and my first time meeting one …
As I have already mentioned elsewhere (not so far on this blog), my beloved cat, Nyx, was run over by a truck last month. I decided not to write of it here, not right away, because I want to keep this blog an interesting and pleasant read, and I always find outpourings of grief to …
After all that business of announcing new eBooks, have a nice long rambly journal! [edit: updated the journal a tiny bit, it is now augmented with handy links to relevant items.] I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, this last weekend, thanks to the generous offer from my amazing aunt, Rachel. As a starving artiste I …