1) New York Trip Hands down the best thing out of the year. I got to explore NYC for over a week. I got to dance Lindy Hop in the Big Apple. My mother and I bonded. We took a side trip to Massachusetts where I got to see her…
I've been in a funk for a while. As I said in my Last Post, I tried writing a couple of blog tober entries, but they came out sounding whiny and bitchy. The other day, my brain put a couple of things together, and a Joycean-level epiphany struck…
I have written three different potential posts, but they all make me sound like a whiny little bitch. So... This is my post today because I don't wanna put my kvetching on the Internet.…
NOTE: This teaser for Halloween Jack and the Red Emperors has not gone through any edits. You're reading as it exists in rough-draft. Final, published-version subject to change. In Which Moira Dalton Waits to Ambush a New Enemy On a foggy Halloween night in San Francisco, Moira Dalton…
Take a breath Wherever you are when you're reading this, stop and take a breath. Now, take another breath. Make it a little deeper and longer than the breath you just took. Maybe hold that breath for a couple of seconds between inhaling and exhaling. Take that second…
What makes a writer a good writer? I'm sitting in my front yard wondering about any follow-up I may have to that question. I'm sure any number of people have an answer. They are sure their answer is the right answer. Their answer explains exactly what…
Grrr... I'm a day behind because on Sunday I became overrun with some emotions. Emotions are dumb. I was also super tired from spending the day at Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom. So now I gotta catch up. Blogtober is hard. In some ways, I'm making it…
The other day, my good friend, Brian C. E. Buhl, wrote a day-in-the-life-post. So... I thought I'd do one too. This is for Friday the 13th of October. All time stamps are approximations. 8:30 AM: I woke up. I usually wake up between 7:00 and 8:…
Here's a memory that came up on Facebook, that I felt needed to be shared on my website. I originally wrote this three years ago today, in the middle of quarantine. Random thought while making coffee... He's called Winnie the Pooh. THE Pooh. So... "Pooh&…
I'm going to ignore that it's Friday the 13th of October and not write about anything Halloween or horror-related. Instead, I'm gonna get esoteric and weird... The last social outing I had before the COVID shutdown was a Sunday brunch with one of my…
