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Ideas are everywhere, but my favorite place to get hot images and  thoughts is Filament Magazine. You want images of skinny men with tatt...

Some days, you just gotta do some research on blue-eyed men who deliver the cool - Paul Newman and Daniel Craig for today.

Today, The Flaming Chef and I wandered downtown Portland before settling in to write. Quite by impulse, we stopped by Verdun Fine Chocolate ...

I do fear description. If I'm going to write a story that actually has plot and action, I tend to scrimp on setting. And I'll show y...

I think today is a good day to make cheesecake. Of course, is there a bad day to make cheesecake?

Photo by Michael Baxter As a pre-published author, I'm not someone who can say, "And X is the title of my new book!" This l...