So it’s once more that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards (for Discon III later this year), and it turns out…

It’s a country dish; a poor people’s dish; a farmer’s hasty breakfast or stopgap luncheon. And (to those who know about it) it instantly recalls the remote Alpine region where…

ETA: Owl Be Home For Christmas is now complete! You can purchase it here: Owl Be Home For Christmas at Ebooks Direct …Sometimes work and life come at you fast,…

It occurred to me that it’d be smart to import this post from EuropeanCuisines.com, it being the time of year to think about such things. Some years back, EuroCuisineLady and…

Let me start by thanking everybody who saw the previous posting  discussing the changes to come to the YoungWizards.com domain, and who took the time to get back to me…

This came up on Tumblr some years back, at the end of a lively thread that featured this exchange: At which point I could only add the following (which comes…

So, a little background here first. Though I was born and raised in the US, I live in Ireland. If there’s one thing about Ireland that you learn pretty quickly,…

The following recipe was improvised on the fly on the evening of October 16, 2020, and unfolded on Twitter. I don’t allow my tweets to be unrolled (because the companies…

Via the Man Upstairs: Here are half a dozen recipes and a few observations. I can provide Indian lime pickle recipes as well if there’s a real glut of fruit;…

(The other day being April 2, 2014. This post is ported in from Tumblr — I’m in the process of moving some longer posts from there to here, where they…

(waving at the online Young Wizards fandom) Folks, it’s time to look at some changes that are coming to the YW online presence, and discuss at least one of them…

A note as we begin: Mostly this blog (per its name) is a place I talk about just about everything but writing. Over time, though, people have started asking me…