Chances are, you have ideas. Chances are even better than your friends will have ideas, too. I have a wide circle of friends who love to bra...

My favorite vampire in literature (other than my very own Valerie Tate , if I may be so immodest), is Joseph Le Fanu's Carmilla . ...

Eh. I'm too tired to write anything intelligent and carefully researched. Have some pictures of Pompeii. The best tasting octupus eve...

Flowers on the mound.  I've been putting off my blogging. I was going to get "serious" and write about my writing process....

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How can I describe the massive experience that is Rome? I can't. So here are a bunch of photographs. The impossibly blue sky over th...