Warning: This post includes a picture of a tarantula. Exit now if arachnophobic. You’ve been warned. But first, a spider story! Many years ago I worked with a motley team of college students, ex-cons, and other ne’er-do-wells in a hamburger place called Moreland’s Mesquite Grill, home of the Toonerville burger. Since this was a mesquite grill and all, as can be imagined, we needed mesquite to cook over, so every week or so we got Read more…
Have you been following the brouhaha over the Cooks Source plagiarism case? Just so everyone is clear on copyright law: just because it’s on the Internet doesn’t mean it’s public domain. Seems the Cooks Source editor was unclear on the concept. In other news, work on Kate’s book is coming along nicely. Word count stands at about 86,000 words. I’m in the end game. Plus, I almost know how it’s going to end. At least Read more…
We moved into this house when my daughter was three years old, just the three of us back then. The HVAC had been updated in the 1980s so it wasn’t original to the house, which was built in 1949, but it was still pretty old. When the heat came on, the house “talked.” I’d be lying in bed in the dark and I could hear whispers and whole conversations as the furnace went on and Read more…