So last night I got annoyed by a clueless politician’s tweet about COVID vaccination (no, I’m not going to link to it) and told them, “Sit down, shut up, and…

When the CrossingsCon committee initially started planning for the next CrossingsCon in 2021, nobody involved with the event would have been likely to have any real sense of what lay…

(Every now and then the need to tell this story comes up. I mentioned it one time on Tumblr, and thought I’d better import it over here so that (a)…

This recipe, in a number of variants, is a favorite around here. I’ve referred to it here and there online, but realized (when I went looking, per a request) that…

It’s just one of those words a cook really needs. Merci, la France… Les petits plats qui mijotent au coin du feu is a phrase that is used like a…

Because when composers start talking about cooking, it’s smart to listen. 🙂 This bake unfolded on the Twitter thread here: https://bit.ly/DavidGArnoldsCake 1/2 Equal weight of eggs butter sugar flour .…

(I’ve copied this post over here from its original location at Tumblr for those who’re not wild about visiting there and having to deal with their data permissions.) A question…

Everybody gets all hot under the collar about the composition and mixology details of James Bond’s (usually) favorite mixed drink. But one piece of Bondian lore about the drink that…

Just a brief note here on how things are going. Those of you who saw the November post about the general updating of all the Young Wizards sites (secondary to…

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…

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,…

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…

Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, or who dip in here from time to time, will know that cooking and cookbooks are issues of interest in…

This post is as much a marker for me as anything else; the sign of a lot of (sometimes deeply annoying) work finished, and a return to more normal operations…

Well, a little weird. Ireland is on COVID-19 lockdown (and will be for the next couple/few weeks, it looks like), and our next grocery delivery isn’t until nearly the middle…

With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading itself about, it seemed like a good idea to give people a local status report of what’s going on with us over here. The short…

(Caption: “Be like our hard-working staff! Wash your hands.”) So last night I looked at the state of the world and thought to myself, “It may be that some people…