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Blog postEvery now and then I’m seized with the urge to write about woodpiles. It’s as if I’m suddenly ambushed and possessed by the spirit of Robert Frost–which happens sometimes, let me tell you, if you live in New Hampshire. And if said possession also coincides with the Chinese New Year, then you get this blog entry.
In other parts of the world, it’s said that wood warms you four times–once when you cut it, once when you split it, once when you stack it, and once when you burn it. In my ne -
Blog postI’ve just been re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It’s a brilliant book, and full of the wit that made Wilde famous before he gained fame for less savory reasons. However, there is one passage that Wilde, who once said that he spent a morning taking out a comma and the afternoon putting it back in, didn’t take enough time to edit. Here Lord Henry Wotton’s uncle is being described:
In politics he was a Tory, except when the Tories were in office, during which period -
Blog postMy short story collection, Dragon Scales and Other Tales, is now available in the Kindle Store.
Excerpts from early reviews:
Includes a fresh treatment of dragons that should not be missed. – Smaug
a reali gud 1, must reid — Riddley Walker
Marry, the absence of vampires showeth the author’s lack of imagination. – John de Oxenford, Sheriff of Nottingham
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Blog postMy family is in the process of moving from a big, mid-1850s Victorian to a smaller, older house in the country. One big reason is that we have fewer people–just four of us left at home. But there’s still quite a bit of furniture. Especially bookcases. Bookcases full of books. Rooms full of bookcases.
There’s no way around it. We’ve got to thin this literary thicket. So how do you make the decision, if you can only keep half your books? Or even a third?
Getting rid of multiple -
Blog postIt’s that time again, in the U.S. anyway–Daylight Savings Time ends tomorrow. It’s a nuisance, but at least this time, we get to turn the clock back and get an extra hour of sleep. The real killer is in the spring when the clock moves forward, and we celebrate by having lots of traffic accidents. While pondering this problem recently, I came up with an ingenious plan to fix the system. In November, nothing changes. But in March, the ‘spring forward’ will be eliminated. Instead, everyone will s
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Blog postThe book that everyone has been waiting for, without knowing it…my attempt to recreate a Viking age verse form in modern (well, sort of) English…is available here. Just the paperback edition so far.
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Blog postIn Egil’s Saga, it’s told how Egil fell into the power of his enemy, King Erik Bloodaxe. Egil managed to save his life by composing a 20-stanza poem of praise for Erik, overnight, and reciting it from memory the next morning.
Those were the days when poets really had to work for their living!
You couldn’t just dash off something in free verse, either. There were demanding technical rules governing how a poem could be composed.
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Blog postMy new book of short fiction is due out this fall–here’s the cover:
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Blog postAn important factor in creating elf habitat is to have the right plants growing in your yard. Sometimes these aren’t the ones you would expect. For example, consider milkweed, pictured in bloom above. Its flowers are actually quite pretty. But although I’ve seen it all my life, and pulled up hundreds of them, I never knew until recently that it flowered at all. It turns out that it’s a favorite plant of butterflies, and who doesn’t like butterflies? For sure, elves must be partial to them.
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