Inspired by Leonardo's sanguine chalk landscapes, I sat in our sunny field and drew a few of my own. By the next week most of the leave...

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  After all this time, the release date for Reynard’s Tale is just a few days away. The book will be out on April 18, so if you’ve ordered ...

Post-covid author visits still seem like a nostalgic novelty, but I did one this week—traveling to the southernmost edge of Virginia in my L...

Last year I quietly recorded ten (of a projected 13) episodes of a sort of folkloric bestiary podcast with my pal Zack Giallongo . We called...

 I've been designing doors in my sketchbook. At a certain point I visited the Strong Oaks Woodshop with a scheme in hand. I've been...

  It was August when I opened up my notes and started serious work on redrafting this novel. I had planned to wrap it up in mid-November. I ...

 I remember when my sister was in high school and wrote this snarky Valentine's Day song. I'm glad she's still singing her offbe...

A little corner of my mind lives forever in this particular dreamspace.  All that and a bucket of inspiration . 

  It’s NaNoWriMo .  For me it’s NaNo(re)WriMo.  I have a little logbook.  I have an eighty thousand word manuscript to use as a startin...

THING ONE : I had a birthday the other day (I try to keep it to one a year). Early in the day I ran out to do a few errands in town and I p...