Inspiration is a wonderful thing, especially to an artist. It’s the reason every painting doesn’t depict the same vase of flowers or gathering of canines playing cards. It’s the moment when the metaphorical lights go on and the liquid flow of random thou… more »

As a kid my mother always was after me to eat my vegetables, a mission that I have had only moderate success with for most of my life. So this weekend I did something I rarely do, I tried something faddish from Hollywood. Green Smoothies. Having made th… more »

Last night I finished my third novel. Oh, it still needs to go to my trusted proof readers and have the typos and apostrophe catastrophes fixed, but it is, for all intents and purposes, a completed work. And that means I have down time.Since I starte… more »

I live in the great white north, where polar bears reportedly roam the city streets and we are all supposed to commute by dogsled alongside the caribou herds. While the truth may be slightly more mundane and a great deal less dangerous, most of the… more »

The more I read in general and read about writing in particular, the more I’ve learned I have yet to learn. It’s all a bit boggling at times. One of the things I have learned is that there are rules to writing. (see my blog entry on headhopping for a… more »