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My Christmas Screed

A Christmas tree with multi-coloured Christmas lights in the middle of a snow-covered collection of evergreens.

This compiles something I threw up on Bluesky because I was thinking about Christmas and what it means to me. I was thinking of a much spicier take–building on the transparency of the “war on Christmas” disinformation–but I (wisely?) decided Read more…


Regrets, Do I Have a Few?

This one is going to well and truly be a blog post, where I write about my personal issues and touch not at all on writing or fiction or review anything. A couple of nights back, my wife and got Read more…


False -cough- Alarm – cough-

It turns out my wife does not have pneumonia. Some issue with reading the X-ray. Still, she’s coughing like crazy, though less crazy than before. Less crazy is good, right? I had four days of fever, chills, and other unpleasant Read more…


My Three Girls

This one is about to get personal. If you’re only here for the geekery, walk away. You’ve been warned. My eldest daughter – known on Twitter as the Princess – will very soon be six. She’s in first grade now. Read more…


Build Up Some Karma AND Your SEP Library

Cross-posted at Sword’s Edge Publishing. Here’s the deal. My daughter is fundraising for the Heart & Stroke Foundation through her school’s Jump Rope For Heart. Don’t know how many of you out there have a few spare dollars, but if Read more…


Little Girls and their Fairy Books

Perhaps it’s the writer in me, but I can be exceptionally critical both of the craft and the message of the books I’m reading to my daughters and that my eldest daughter (all of 5) is reading to herself. Right Read more…


Thinking Of The Children

Excuse me while I get personal for a moment (in case you haven’t noticed, this blog is moving away from its e-zine roots to truly become my blog). I’m part of a single income family. I am lucky enough to Read more…


Getting Personal

I didn’t think posting my thoughts about my daughter’s social dilemmas in junior kindergarten fit, but if you are interested, you can check it out on my tumblr feed. The article is here.