I am a very silly person who did something exceedingly silly to my old website (PHP upgrades, my old nemesis!), but I believe I’m back in business now. I’ll be uploading old posts to the new blog over the next few weeks, I hope.

When everything changed, I was standing outside a mattress store. I’d just had lunch at a local poke place, and I was standing outside the mattress store across the street. It was Sunday, the Sunday before I bought my house, and I was contemplating going inside to shop for a…

So last time I wrote a blog entry, I had just moved to an awesome new place with my awesome new cat. I was getting settled in, and all was well. And then the Fire Nation attacked… Actually, no, what happened was that I got a job offer that I…

It starts with a cat. A kitten, actually, who showed up on my porch on a Saturday night. I was sitting in my living room when I saw something on the low retaining wall just outside my window. I went out to investigate, and it was a kitten.  She saw…

As I write this, it’s President’s Day weekend. I’d originally planned to be out and about today, but when I came out of seeing Black Panther (fantastic movie, by the bye!) the temperature had dropped six degrees, the wind was kicking up, and it was snowing pretty good, so I…

Go places, look at things, take some pictures, do some work.  That’s pretty much how I’m spending my January, as I let the writing lie fallow and enjoy having time to breathe and get my brain back together.  There’s a certain panic that comes with not writing, a little bit…

If I cannot bring you comfort, then at least I bring you hope. It’s been kind of a hell of a year. As a recap: at the beginning of 2017, I was working for a Large Tech Company You’ve Definitely Heard Of as well as being the communications manager for…

It’s the end of May, and that means one thing around here: Clarion West workshop season is upon us! As the person who manages communications for the organization, this is my busy time of year with the Write-a-thon, the readings, and all sorts of little details that need to be…

Sometimes, you need to go down the wrong alley to figure out where the right alley even is. I’m working on a story that’s currently titled “The Five Foot Summer,” which is the orca selkie story.  The first draft ran long–nearly 9000 words–and I decided to try to cut it…