Dang

Just the other day, I was thinking I hadn’t had a story rejected lately. So of course, another one got kicked back into the “keep trying” pile. Dang.

Daffodils are open!

I never get my fill Of daffodils.

Re: Inbound 4

Boston is full of local history, odd little stories that add up to a sense of place. A fun collection of some is presented in comic book form is Inbound 4: A Comic Book History of Boston. Assembled by the Boston Comics Roundtable, these Boston-based artists tell a wide assortment of historic tales. It’s like […]

Springy bread

Its such a spring that even my breads are springing. I think I’m getting the hang of this baking thingy.

It’s sunny! It’s spring!

It was such a sunny day I saw two honeybees searching for more flowers this afternoon. One of them buzzed my ear, but that was the closest I got. So for a picture, here’s a beautiful bee from another blog in my neighborhood. This kind of extreme weather I like!

The earth is wearing green

That rain was good for lots of things. Tulips sprouting. Daylilies sprouting. Groundcovers coming back. It’s good for lots of green.

Re: Eclipse Three

I found most of the stories in Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan, especially in the first half of the book, disturbing, disorienting, and depressing, but never dull. Over and over, I would get sucked in by beautiful writing. I would keep reading, wondering where it’s going, thinking that if it’s this well done, there […]

NERAX is coming

I’m going to be a bit crazy next week. NERAX is coming. It’s a beer festival dedicated to showcasing the traditional style of beer, before it was filtered, pasterized, chilled, and put into pressurized kegs. We’re so traditional that more than half the beers in the festival will be coming from the UK, where the […]

Ignore the deluge

It’s wet out there today. As in repeated flood warnings wet. So here’s a few snowdrops from a few sunny days ago. I hope the snowdrops are enjoying the rain. They can have it.

Re: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday

I knew about Michael Faraday from his work showing the connection between electricity and magnetism. I even have a 20 pound note stashed away, showing him giving a public lecture. Reading The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, by Alan Hirshfield only deepens my admiration. Though he is still regarded as one of the great experimental […]