Isn't the Lettuce Brave?

[The image here is the effect created by someone spinning fire poi. Poi, in this sense, is a Maori word meaning "ball on string,...

Not today. Okay, earlier today, but not now, even though the sun is creeping up and into the window I'm sitting in front of and maki...

So how many of you (admittedly, 5-6) Lettuce Readers have already given up on the New Year's Resolutions that you made a few weeks ag...

So, I was working on some prep for an upcoming class I have to interpret and I stumbled upon a passage in an essay that not only struck me...

Like it was just yesterday. I still remember you on one knee at Manchester Airport (if you want me to say yes to something, asking when...

Yeah, that's what I look like in my head - but less blonde. Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Yeah, so I'm a little behind, b...

So a few more things have come to mind since I am now back in my warm office and sipping HOT cider. Like a first-worlder. Like a person...

What do you mean we have to leave this warm house? - Ciaragh Oh, y'all. It has been a DAY already, and it isn't even 1pm yet (al...

GEEK spelled in British Sign Language. People ask me all the time why I do what I do - lately, my answer is to carefully shrug my shoul...

[Disclaimer: Nothing like that, no books were harmed in the making of this post. It's just that my nano has taken off again, rather li...

You know that feeling when you have started another Nanowrimo and you're cruising along and your story is basically WRITING ITSELF and...

In my Facebook feed this morning was a list of "memories," things that I posted on Facebook on November 1st all the way back to ...

Dismantled Piece by piece I'm taken apart The sum of my parts Weighed. Measured. Found wanting. Not enough Never enough The pa...

So there are always loads of voices in my head, pulling me in different directions and begging me to tell their stories. Seriously. Being ...

My concept drawing of my character, Ginolwenye, from the Nature Walker Trilogy. [Disclaimer - wannabe authorly post ahead. Read at your ...