In the wake of the Boston terror attacks at the marathon the other day, some strange twists developed that gave me pause for thought.  And ...

I was tagged by Luke Walker in his The Next Big Thing blog post chain. It's taken me a little while to respond, because well, I wasn...

So there's a lot of writing advice out there.  A lot of it's great.  Some of it stinks.  I've even thrown my two amateur cents i...

I find it odd, this thing called voice.  I read quite a wide variety of authors, both classic and contemporary, and with the good ones, no m...

Let's talk a bit about dirty words.   It's been on my mind lately, especially after a #kidlit chat on Twitter regarding swearing.  I...

Words: they say a picture is worth a thousand of them.  Fair enough, but I think sometimes the exact opposite is true.  Sometimes nothing ca...

Recently, a couple of people have passed on blog awards to me, and I thought it was time to look into that subject a little deeper, and pass...

"You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride. S...

Ok.  So everyone here probably already knows I'm a pretty big Seattle Seahawks fan.  And by "pretty big", I don't mean in ...

*** Warning: the following post contains a lot of gratuitous food porn! *** The other day I was perusing Twitter, trying valiantly not to g...