Quoth Og Mandino

"The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Testing WP Book

So I’ve been really happy with Wordbooker but WP-Book apparently has “full duplex” functionality and I cannot live without full duplex functionality! So we shall see how this works. I can tell you one thing, it’s a man-bear-pig to set up!

This post is for A.M. Dellamonica …

… who is currently in the throes of first love for WordPress. My dear, you asked me to recommend a good crossposter plugin to send posts to LiveJournal, and I suggested LiveJournal Crossposter. And it is indeed a fine plugin that has never given me a moment’s headache. But lo, I may have found [...]

Silent Spring

OK, I admit it … my blog has been very quiet lately.

It’s not for lack of stuff to post about … my daughter left for Outdoor School this morning, I need to write a review of THE LAST WITCHFINDER by James Morrow (which was utterly fantastic;  Morrow is one of my new favorite [...]

Hello from BlueHost

Well, THAT was a bit of a chore, I must say. I’ve spent the past day-and-a-half migrating this blog from GoDaddy hosting over to my new digs here at BlueHost.com (via their $3.95/month special offer … a nice deal).

It feels so obscenely good to be almost 100% free of GoDaddy’s headache-inducing UI, shameless [...]

A satisfactory cockatrice

As mythological creatures go, I’ve always had a soft spot for cockatrices (or is it cockatrixes in the plural? I have no idea.) This is because I think roosters are incredibly pretty, and adding a snakey tail to just about anything makes it even prettier, except kittens. Or wait, maybe a kitten with a [...]