Essays

One of the reasons I keep writing about sleep is because I keep looking for what we refer to as “the magic handshake.” Generally, my husband and I use that in reference to writing, how new (and sometimes older) writers are always looking for that one magic thing that’s going to make them a sudden

I appear to cycle between drinks for my warm morning beverage. For a time, I was all about the coffee. Roasted my own beans. Was starting to experiment with my own blends. Etc. Though I still loved coffee, coffee stopped loving me. My body was not happy with my favorite beverage. So I switched to

I moved into TH2, my tiny house, in October of 2021. In February of 2023, I finally got my heat all straightened out. Yes, that’s over one year of the heat not working properly. It’s been a long journey. I kept thinking that I was going to write about it, except that I couldn’t, not

We went to a martial arts tournament this weekend. It was the first time I’d ever gone to see something like that. We went because my friend Jon Crane was being promoted to the 9th dan, which is the highest rank achievable in his form of karate. He’s now “The Dude” for the West Coast.

A while back, I received WMG’s “Motivational Mondays” as part of a Kickstarter reward. It took me a while to get to them. At this point, though, I’m looking forward to listening to one session a week. The idea behind Motivational Mondays was to encourage writers to keep moving. That has been difficult these past

I’ve never been much of an audiobook consumer. It’s never been a medium that’s worked well for me. However, I have been getting into listening to more podcasts recently. And then there was the whole concussion thing, where I didn’t want to use or strain my eyes. Coming up in March, I’ll be having cataract

It is still early days in our adventures with setting up a WooCommerce store on the Knotted Road Press (KRP) website. You’ll find it here: https://www.knottedroadpress.com/shop Before this, Blaze and I had each set up a shop on our own, individual websites. Neither of us was doing too great at it, and though he pushed