Tales from the Raven

Do you ever get the feeling that you just want news?  Because I have several stories that have been out for awhile, and because I’m used to getting rejections on an almost weekly if not more frequent basis, I’m finding myself checking my inbox for news.
Any news.
Of course, I’m not such a chit that I’ve put [...]

The National Hurricane Center links to a preparedness site which looks helpful.  A lot of the info we’re already aware of, but a refresher is alwasy a good plan, and emergency packs should be regularly updated.
I also had’nt really considered the necessity of having a different plan for the different emergencies a hurricane can bring [...]

I’ve sent my chinese-myth based story back to the muse for more work (and research!), and switched focus to another story that’s been swirling around in my head.
I worked on it here and there for a couple days and finished it last night, feeling pleased.
This morning I printed it off to read while I ran around, [...]

I had hopes that we’d get a couple more posts out of her, but apparently not.  Miss Snark has said goodbye and posted her last post. 
Let us all pause for a moment of snarkly fury that she has so cruelly bailed on us.
 
I still had questions.  We all begged her to stay…but at least she is [...]

I’m weighing in a bit late, but couldn’t let it go without a note.
Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, among other books, died on May 17th 2007.  The Washington Post carried a tribute to him in their obituaries.  I particularly enjoyed this quote printed therein:
“I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland, but [...]

I’m wearing contacts!
After seven years of dry eyes problems which denied me contacts, I’m finally able to wear them again.  No more looking at the world through smudge-tinted glasses, squinting into the sun, and rubbing at the pinch places on my face every night.
Now, instead, I can blink and blink ’cause the silly contact’s folded, lose them when [...]

Once again a science fiction author, in this case Stanislaw Lem among possible others, has correctly anticipated a trend in science.
You can see a short article on the subject at Technovelgy, or go directly to the Fabrican Ltd site to peruse the spray-on wardrobe in your future.

I know what’s for dinner.  Chebes!  My double shipment just came, so I have plenty…for now.  This tasty little Brazilian cheese bread never lasts as long as I project.
Make them just before dinner and set them out hot, maybe with some soup, and we’re set.  Delicious!

I’ve been rifling through Diana Wynne Jones “Tough guide to Fantasyland” for quite some time now, and have always thorougly enjoyed it.  But today I had a lightbulb moment.  Wouldn’t it be cool if I could write a Guide to my fantasy world?
Obviously is wouldn’t be intended for publication, but it would give me a place to keep [...]

As I was heading down a narrow two lane road to pick my daughter up from school I crested a hill and realized that the car in front of me was stopped, waiting to turn left across traffic.
I slowed to a stop behind them, then looked in my rearview mirror as the next car crested [...]