Ride the Lightning Thief

My daughter discovered Percy Jackson in the third grade and hasn’t read much else since. I have defended this choice, because like Neil Gaiman and...

Kyoto Station

The main train station in Kyoto....

The Truth About Rejection

Have you heard about the writer whose goal was to collect 100 rejections in a year? Have you heard about the writer who is trying...

A Fair Barbarian

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books A Little Princess and The Secret Garden are two of my favorite childhood reading experiences. I did not find out until...

January on the Crooked Road

In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts in January: Sólstafir at KEXP A testament to SEO in blog titles I guess....