Writing the final scenes of a novel is always a little bittersweet for me.  As much as I'm driven to write, particularly after I've survived the slog through the middle, it's always a little sad to be saying goodbye to the characters.  And even though...

I am a few writing days from finishing "Future Tense," a YA novel about a teenager with unwelcome precognitive abilities.  I think of it as urban fantasy, but I'm not certain anymore if the kind of YA novels that call to me can actually sit comfortably...

I just finished devouring Lois McMaster Bujold's "Shards of Honor," the first of a series of books in her Vorkosigan saga.  It was wonderful.  It was everything I remembered in the magic of SciFi books I read in childhood, and written with strong...

The days spill out too quickly from the end of the year.  It's not even the whole Christmas thing, because we don't celebrate it and we've always kept Hanukkah to the low key place it deserves in the pantheon of Jewish holidays.  I think it's partly...

The kitchen is (mostly) back to its baseline.  The leftovers have been crammed into the fridge, with some in a cooler on the back deck.  Pie and coffee for breakfast--my favorite 'black Friday' tradition.  :) I love to cook for a crowd and I love to...