Quoth Og Mandino

"Action will destroy your procrastination."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Conquering the world, one Website at a time

It is with great pleasure that I announce the rollout of my most recent project—a brand new WordPress–driven Website for award-winning author Ekaterina Sedia. This follows work I’ve done for Genevieve Valentine and Sara Mueller. I really really enjoy working with writers. Why? Well, for one thing, you might [...]

In which I learn useful new Photoshop tricks

I consider myself reasonably well-versed in Photoshop, but I’m also a creature of habit. Once I’ve learned how to do something, I generally don’t go out looking for a more efficient way to do that thing. However, sometimes a situation crops up where the normal way of doing things becomes so wastefully time-consuming that [...]

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 [...]

Bragging on daughter

We interrupt this blog for some intensive and focused bragging on my daughter, who’s been having a bang-up year so far, as evinced by the following:

1) She made honor roll this term, for the first time in her whole elementary school career.

2) She achieved a “self manager” badge, which is actually surprisingly [...]

What a week.

I tell you what, I am simply fashed. When I sat looking at my half-wallpapered office last week, thinking, “gee, how hard could it be just to get that job done? I can knock that out in a day, tops!” I didn’t take into account two facets of my personality that operate in harmonic [...]