“Nadolig Llawen!”

It is about an hour past midnight, in the wee hours of Christmas morning. The parents are safely asleep, and so I have just gotten back from creeping out into the living room and leaving them a little surprise in the stockings left hanging over our (entirely traditional) Christmas Victrola. Since I know neither of …

Quest, eternal

Since I hate to leave a story unfinished I thought I’d type up a report on my horse’s injury. For those of you with blissfully short memories, a few weeks ago I went to take the ol’ pony out for a ride and this happened. A tense weekend spent soaking, bandaging, and administering bute followed, …

Skirting the Block

I was recently at a dinner gathering where I wound up engaged in conversation with a teacher. She was an English teacher, she said, she taught children how to write. She got very interested when she learned I was a writer, and asked how I dealt with my writer’s block. First I was amused that …

Damnit, Dexter

I have not updated recently on the grounds that there has been nothing to update about. I have not finished any novels, published any novels, or really done anything that would merit a mention on this blog. This is not to say I have not been busy. I have been very busy. Mired in things …