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Author: Cedar Sanderson
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Past Reflects Future
I always feel a little hesitant to offer any analysis of current events. For one thing, it seems that these days, everything is political, will I, nil I. For another, it’s outside my realm. I am not that erudite and intellectual as to think that my observations are weighty and worthy of proclaiming. Besides which,…
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Odd Prompts: Magnetic Repulsion
A little snippet of a SF romance. Written my way. *** The first time they met could best be described as a case of magnetic repulsion. Their eyes met across the void between them, and the force of their attraction flipped them violently around. “It sounds better when you put it that way.” She was…
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Death on the Nile: Movie Review
My son took me to see Death on the Nile. It was sweet and funny, because he gets free tickets as a perk with his job, and he’d seen the posters and knew very little about the movie, only that he thought I’d enjoy it. I enthusiastically fell in line with his plan. Not only…
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Tired Art: How-to
First, you try to do far too much, and get yourself to the point where all you really want to do is sleep but first, art. More seriously, this technique is what I do if I’m sick, or exhausted, but I want to keep to my daily San Check of making a piece of art…
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Certainty
I’m sitting here quietly. I’ve written the Mad Genius post, my dear husband brought me coffee, but the apartment is mostly dark still. The laptop is warm on my legs, and honestly I just am not yet ready for lights, action, cooking… I’m working on learning how to relax. This is a good season of…
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Odd Prompts: To Arms
No one expected there to be red pandas in the Sussex Arms. Which was, of course, why they were there. Dan peered over his half-moon readers at them, his gray fringed head gleaming under the new LED lights everyone hated in the ancient pub. There were two of them, and they were Shelby’s fault. She…
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You can’t tell a horse
A friend and I were talking, and she was telling me her planned technique for wrangling a young steer. Farmgirl is using a variant on the Johnson method for horsebreaking, at least as I understand it, to get the steer used to her being on the end of the line, and in time and with…
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The Ratel Saga
The Ratel Saga, story by Lawdog, and illustrated by yours truly, is available to purchase! The decision was made to make it available in ebook as a comic, as well as a coloring or activity book, because, well, it’s such fun! Almost 60 pages of meticulously labeled drawings of African wildlife accompany the very funny…
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The Lady’s Cake
This is a recipe from Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book, published in 1880. It was the Gilded Age in the United States, and the height of the Victorian Era in the British Empire. Wabash, Indiana became the first city in the world lit by electric lights. Thomas Edison tests his electric railway in New Jersey.…
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Ginger Oatmeal Cookies
These were an experiment in textures. I wanted to make a cookie that was crisp, but not too crunchy. I like a chewy cookie, but not a cakey texture. The First Reader likes a cookie with a bit of bite to it. And the ginger? Well, I love ginger, and on a cold day a…
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90 Min Soup Beans
The First Reader has been asking me to make soup beans for a while now. I’d finally gotten around to finding a smoked ham shank, as cooking a whole ham for three of us, in the apartment was… too much. I had a snow day, and I cooked all day. Ran the oven for most…
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Which Cake to Make?
A while back, when I was doing the Vintage Kitchen series, I acquired some antique cookbooks through various means, including a friend on social media who is a book dealer and would pop into my dm’s with hey, want a book? So yeah, I did want a book. Which is how I wound up with…