If you haven’t heard of Zombie Zak, you really need to pop over to that great internet talk radio site, TMV Cafe, or check out his work in the Belfire Press anthology, Old School. And now, as his alter ego Bill Snider (or could ZZ be the alter zombie of Bill Snider himself?!), there is a new poetry collection just released via Needfire Poetry!

I received an interesting email the other day, and it’s put me in the mode to work – hard – on one of my WIPs. Throughout October, I’ll get it all arranged and planned and thought through. Once NaNo starts November 1st, I’ll be ready to give it my full attention. This one in particular hasn’t seen any attention really, since I don’t even remember when, but I’m going to run off the original 5k that I started with in July of 2008.
I always want to re-visit New Bedlam with …

I missed out on July’s WriYe Blog Circle posting, what with everything going on and having little sit-down time with my thoughts. It was Zombie July at WriYe, and the focus was on horror, and that brought our fearless leader to thinking about limits, and what our limits are…

First Thursday of a new month and I’m actually getting the prompts out at the right time! Let’s hope that bodes well for the rest of the month, what do you say?

This is what’s for dinner tonight, wonderfully spiced beef sausages in a hearty sauce, served on basmati. A good dinner for a mid-week slump.

This past weekend, I went from behaving well, to behaving very badly in a matter of moments. Not a mood swing, but an adverse reaction of sorts.
It’s been three months since my mother passed away, and our extended family just had the first of what will be many gatherings – a bridal shower. As everyone in the family knows, my mother was all over these things. From finding ways to have ‘the’ best gift for the bride, to insisting on inserting herself in the planning, to fussing over the food …

I get a kick out of Julia Child. I do. Not enough to through my life or that of others into a blog for a year – although I did enjoy Julie & Julia the movie, not so much the book.
She explains everything simply, as though she were speaking to people who have absolutely no idea what they are doing in the kitchen, perhaps because at the time she learned to cook during her stay in Paris, she too, had no idea. Check out some posts on Youtube, they’re worth …