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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

So I decided to embroider dishclothes. Motivations aside, I thought this would be doable because I once embroidered a butterfly during...

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...

Thanks to not being able to find a job other than retail in the lovely, popular, ever-growing metroplex of Austin (despite a doctoral...

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...

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...