I might as well be a vampire. The only bright side is I can sunbathe and I can live without drinking blood. My biggest secret, if I had any big ones, would probably be that I’m over 900 years old. But I’m lousy with secrets and honest to a fault, so I’m likely the object of much speculation among doctors and scientists as I fail to show any signs of normal aging. I hate the tests they put me through,…
I’m little by little working on making my ecological footprint smaller. The average American has a 24-acre footprint, and currently the planet has only 4.5 acres per person. So we’re pretty lousy about taking care of our planet. Right now, my footprint is about 14 acres. Compared to the American average, it’s pretty modest. I eat very little meat. I now cook a lot of my own food using fresh ingredients instead of heating up packaged food or going out…
Bonnie Dee‘s Bone Deep is getting a buzz on readers’ and reviewers’ blogs lately, so I thought it would be nice to show how I did the cover for it. As always, the cover began with a cover art request form, and this time it came with a sketch, as displayed here. Bonnie already had a pretty good concept in mind, and her sketch was merely a guide for the artist, a means in which to communicate her vision. She…
That quirk I have, the one that has me mishearing everything so that I hear “stiff-assed” instead of “steadfast” or “London Derriere” instead of “Londonderry Air”—it’s contagious. The other day, as I was preparing veggies for the yaki soba I planned on cooking for lunch, I was startled by loud and ominous sounds from above. I’m on the top floor, so sounds from above kind of freak me out, but they sounded like heavy footfalls on the roof. Santa ……
On my first full day in Sydney, I planned on going on one of those harbor tours. They have these boats that do nothing but circle around the huge Sydney Harbour, from Darling Harbour to Circular Quay, from Circular Quay to Watson’s Bay, from Watson’s Bay to Taronga Zoo, and all the way back to Darling Harbour. I had a ticket for the Rocket Harbour Cruise, so I could ride it all day from stop to stop, and the departures…