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Powell’s Haul!
I realized I forgot to post my Powell’s haul, picked up on my trip there last month. I sold a bunch of books and got back about $180 in credit. Here’s what I brought home: From the top down: The Greatest Knight: The Unsung Story of the Queen’s Champion by Elizabeth Chadwick. A historical novel [...]
Inspiration comes in like an angel.
Image courtesy santarosa on Flickr. How can it be that last night I was ready to give up on Foxglove, and now, after just an hour of mental meandering while trying in vain to sleep in, new ideas have me plotting, planning and getting ready to pull out the notecards and finally finish the outline? [...]
Books and Buffaloes
I haven’t been sleeping well lately, and so I’m fairly exhausted. I’ve been slowly working my way through reading The Iliad, and it seems like I haven’t read any other fiction for months. Not totally sure that’s accurate, but I sure feel that way. I am really in the mood for some summer reading; you [...]
Review: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
When I decided to branch out into reading other members of the Inklings (the casual literary circle comprised of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and others), Dorothy L. Sayers was the obvious first choice as the only female of the group. I started out reading Mind of the Maker, Sayers’ book on the creative [...]
Setting aside the Dream, for now.
Just got back from a trip to see a niece graduate. A fun time was had by all, but I’m glad to be back home. Before I left, something happened (a relationship thing) that left me devastated . . . yet somehow rekindled the creative fire at the same time. It’s as if letting go [...]
Resurfacing.
Once about every three or four months, I go into social hibernation, for a couple weeks at least. I don’t know why I do this, but I’ve learned that it’s necessary for my mental health and creativity to just go with it. It’s not great for my online friendships, not great for “building my writing [...]
A Story A Day in May!
I’m taking part in Story a Day May! I’m normally not a short story writer. In fact, I don’t even like reading them much, unless they’re by an author I love. Even then it’s sort of tough. Basically, by the time I warm up to the characters the story has ended. (I think this may [...]
As close to a from-scratch WP theme as I care to get.
I’ve switched Badgerish.Net to the most bare-bones WordPress theme I could find. So far, no theme I’ve found has exactly the features I want, and usually they have too much I don’t want, including sloppy code. So I’ve installed WP Framework as the basis for building a theme of my own. This theme has nothing [...]