I'll be in Writer's of the Future Vol. 37!
So, I'd been submitting to L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest for about 17 years. I had a few Honorable Mentions under my...
Wings of Change
My story "Scales of Lapis and Jasper," about a dragon who reconnects with her heritage, is out in a new anthology called Wings of Change,...
Follow-up to Awesome Sauce Office Software Training (and maybe some serious commentary on education,
For those of you who were curious about how the actual software that we had training on (now that said software actually "exists") I will...
How to make a work training on new software as painless as possible.
Do you need to train employees on how to use a new computer program? If so, follow this guide to make the experience as awesome-sauce as...
Summer travels...aka a desert love story
Several years ago, when living in Japan, I joined a community Art Club. (Like the time I joined the ACT Gospel Choir in college, not...
Domestic attempt...
So I decided to embroider dishclothes. Motivations aside, I thought this would be doable because I once embroidered a butterfly during...
When will you grow up?
There comes a time when (some of us) wonder, when will I ever be an actual adult? Consider this interaction: Unwary student comes into my...
'Idiocracy' isn't sci-fi, it's happened, people.
Thanks to not being able to find a job other than retail in the lovely, popular, ever-growing metroplex of Austin (despite a doctoral...
X-Files Rewatch
SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen all seasons of the X-files. The X-Files was a seminal show in my youth. My binders in high school were...
NaNoWriMo 2015
I discovered NaNoWriMo last year--I was very late to the game--and it helped me complete my first novel, which I am now querying to...