“When Did We See You” When I speak of my chronic illnesses or see others speaking of theirs and then I hear or read certain responses have you tried a liver cleansehave you tried colloidal silverhave you tried meditationhave you tried a vegan diethave you tried essential oilshave you tried yoga it sounds just like …
Well, after a debacle of shenanigans, my Etsy store is finally up and running. Besides myself, I have Jenai and Scott to thank for its existence, because they gave me the cumulative kicks in the ass that I needed to do this, finally, after decades. I mean, Etsy hasn’t existed for as long as I’ve …
And would you believe, I’ve been too busy with the next one to post about the one I spent almost all the second half of 2022 on? That was an absolutely terrible sentence, and as a writer, I should know better. But I don’t care. I GOT THE BOOK DONE. After a title change. HA …
That’s it. That’s the title. A “scend” is the surge created by a wave, which is doubly fun because this novel is set in a landlocked country. *laughs in maniacal confused* As you might already know, my current project is to take my first two Light-Walker novels, Rethana’s Surrender and Rethana’s Trial, and squoosh them …
I am enjoying it very, very much. I think it’s thoroughly true to the spirit of Tolkien’s creation, even when it diverges wildly in details. (I.e. if Jirt aka Jolkien Rolkien were writing it today, I think he would include POC characters and more female characters, if for no other reason than his work wouldn’t …
There was a time when I loathed tattoos. This was when I was still my fearful child self, my anxiety-ridden teen self, and my superconfused young adult self. Anything different was terrifying. I know. Welcome To Humanness, right? People with tattoos intimidated the shit out of me. Remember, this was Germany in the ’80s and …
So, long story short, I’m trying to get back to blogging again. Actually, I’m trying to get back to a lot of things. Contrary to popular belief, we are still in a pandemic. COVID numbers in OKC are rising, and my understanding is that it’s the same in most areas of the nation. No shocker, …
In Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler writes: …Kindness eases Change.Love quiets fear. …Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. …(T)hat makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God.…It’s a hard truth. Too hard for some people to take, but that doesn’t make it any less true. …
When I last left this blog, I was in the middle of Atheism for Lent, bleeding my thoughts onto the digital page as I processed everything I was reading, watching, listening to. I remember feeling as though I were in a good place in life. My writing was going well; we had recently gotten our …
First off, you know that feeling when you get an inner urge to revamp your blog but when you go to do it you find that you’ve forgotten your password and when you click “forgot password” WordPress decides heyyo we’re not gonna send you one so you end up locked out of your blog whilst …