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  • Candy for Your Ears: Urban Fantasy

    Candy for Your Ears: Urban Fantasy

    Urban fantasy audio books are like candy. You can’t consume just one. The first one always leads to the next and the next. It’s the gateway drug of audio books. They’re the first person shooters of the fantasy genre. What makes these stories so addictive? Let’s toss them onto the operating table and dissect them… Read more

  • A Homeric Ode for Your Friday

    A Homeric Ode for Your Friday

    Went with a Homeric ode for today’s assignment (rhyme scheme: Abab cdecde) and reworked a poem I wrote on a tour bus in Scotland in 2001 because it was so damned close to a Homeric ode. Figured I’d go the extra mile and push it over the edge into Homeric ode territory. I painted the accompanying… Read more

  • Red Queen versus White King: Alan Touring Through the Looking Glass

    Red Queen versus White King: Alan Touring Through the Looking Glass

    Unless you too just finished The Enigma: Alan Touring, you’re probably scratching your head right now at the title of today’s post. I did read it, and I’m still scratching my head over it. Before I attempt to make some sense out of this, because I will lose my mind if I don’t, I need to get… Read more

  • A Grave Insect: Two Limericks for Thursday

    A Grave Insect: Two Limericks for Thursday

    A dash on a gravestone, expresses how you’ve grown A sister rendered into dates, because death wouldn’t wait. It left only her bones. Read more

  • Treat yourself to Book Writing 101 with a humous twist

    Treat yourself to Book Writing 101 with a humous twist

    Ever wondered how to write a book? Wonder no more. Rands wrote a tongue in cheek blog post about the process: How to Write a Book. In his article, he advises: Even better, stop thinking about writing a book. Your endless internal debate and self-conjured guilt about that book you haven’t written yet is a sensational waste… Read more

  • Deconstructing My Constructed Self

    Deconstructing My Constructed Self

    Deconstructing My Constructed Self He paints my face—olive—light, a gift from ancient ancestors. His strokes thick, quick, powder flies everywhere. He draws my lips–firm, first an outline, plumb, overlaid with a layer for shine, fine. Then my eyes–smoldering, brown–shadowed and still. Lined with deepest black, my lashes traced. Then the finishing touches—rouge–to unhide my cheekbones. I feel beautiful today. My face masked by… Read more

  • Secrets Of The Sea Known Only By Her: An Acrostic

    Secrets Of The Sea Known Only By Her: An Acrostic

    Secrets of the Sea Known Only by Her She sits by the water, Eyes staring at the calm surface, Cringing in the cold. She watched Rings form in the clear depths. Every ring brushed against The waves, beating against the Shores of her mind Read more

  • Some Haiku for You

    Some Haiku for You

    Rain falling softly Children with yellow rain coats Splashing in puddles — Dry grass crackling Orange tongues of fire Marshmallows melting — Flunking another quiz The books I never opened A red pen- grade fixed Read more

  • Laughs and an Outlet for your Writing

    Laughs and an Outlet for your Writing

    Do you do any of these things?  Camilla Marsh, writing for The Writing Cooperative, put together a list of quirks, anyone of which might apply to you. Here’s a sneak peak: 7. You’ve been known to taper off during a conversation, staring into oblivion, mouth slightly ajar, as your mind fills with an enthralling tale-to-be… Read more

  • User Experience Matters

    User Experience Matters

    If you doubt this, come to my office where every little detail of a website is scrutinized. We’re not a big player in the web world. We don’t want to send our visitors screaming for the exit; we want them to come into our site and never leave. We are a black hole sucking you… Read more