• The Summer of Laying Workers, 2

    The Summer of Laying Workers, 2

    Read Part One of this series here.  We’re two-thirds through, folks, and I hope you’ll feel the investment of your reading time pays off, with drama and fascinating facts from the insect world. Beekeepers call a honey bee colony “queen-right” when it has a laying queen in residence, and “queen-less” when it doesn’t—which, as we’ll… Read more

  • The Summer of Laying Workers, 1

    A passion almost equal to writing, for me, is beekeeping. Honey bees are exceptional animals, fascinating to humans and heavily researched, yet with many behaviours we still don’t understand the mechanics of or know the reasons for. Here’s a saga in several parts about who does what in a honey bee colony, and the consequences… Read more

  • A shiny future

    A blog without content is like a car during lockdown: parked week after week in the garage, seeing no action but from the mice running in and out its grille to store kernels of dog food in a thick layer on the engine filter. (Thanks to JL for this scenario.)  The car waits, knowing its… Read more

  • Why I love Twitter

    As you’d see from the activity on this website’s sidebar, I’ve been living on Twitter for the past many months.  For seven years I’ve been on that platform, but barely present until November of 2020. Until then, I didn’t see how it served me, I used it badly as a business promotion tool, and it… Read more

  • Legitimacy and community in writer-land

    My last status report here was as the #5amWritersClub virtual retreat was starting: Unforgettable Characters and Incredible Journeys. The retreat blew me away, and it’s taken me all this time to find myself back on shore. Exactly as I expected, it helped me see my novel-in-progress from new perspectives. It gave me tools for understanding… Read more

  • Heroic Care flash sale

    For a few more hours, until the end of day Wednesday, May 5, the publisher is making the e-book of Heroic Care available free on Amazon! And the paperback is at a steep discount. Enjoy the wonderful variety of art, poetry, and fiction in this exciting international anthology. I’m thrilled to have my story, “This… Read more

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