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Author: Cedar Sanderson
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Restaurant Rant: A Guest Post
Cedar’s note: a good friend posted this on social media, and I asked if I might share it here. It hits home for me – you might recall that the First Reader and I have spent many happy days hunting for small mom’n pop restaurants. We really don’t want to eat at franchises or…
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Porch Musing
The First Reader and I were sitting on the front porch sipping coffee and waking up, when I started quizzing him on military colloquialisms. He rubbed a hand over his face, standing his hair on end, blinked at me, and pointed out he’d only technically been in S4. See, this is why I need…
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Eat This While You Read That: DJ Butler
Today is the day to celebrate In the Palace of Shadow and Joy! And to help you welcome Dave Butler’s new book into the world, here’s a recipe for a lovely, spicy, all-in-one pot dish you can savor while you are reading the story of a man who kept history alive in his head.…
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Aslcepias
Milkweed, and it’s cousin Butterfly Weed, are some of my favorites. Not only are they host to the Monarch butterfly in infant stage, they have wonderfully shaped flowers. The Common Milkweed has a divine scent: the one time I have seriously attempted distillation I was seeking to capture the volatile oils that make their…
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An Emotional Artifact
This is the stillness after the storm. My mind is both very full of thoughts and feelings, and oddly empty. I’m supposed to be doing a half-dozen things right now, but instead I sat down to… write some more? There’s a hole in my brain at the moment. It’s vaguely book-shaped. When they say…
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Writing Marathon
Ready, set, go! I have a week(ish) of vacation. Other than possibly a couple of days down to visit my mother and sister with all the kids (during which I plan to get no writing done other than daily minimums, and that because Mom will encourage me into it), I have a full seven…
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June Writing Data
My monthly productivity report. I was thinking that the whole lockdown quarantine nonsense wasn’t affecting me all that much. After all, I go to work every day. I go home. I write. I make art – usually on my lunch break. I take walks with the camera in hand and fall in love –…
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Watermelon Rind: A Guest Post
This is a post from Tammie Darden, who I am proud to call friend. She’s an inspiration to me: she cooks, cans, gardens, and like I have been working at becoming, she’s a scientist. When I saw her talking about a paper on the use of watermelon rind, I asked if she would be…
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The Paradigm of Parenting
This isn’t something you think about, if you have had a normal childhood. Which one of us, when we were young and under the care of loving parents, would think that one day the shoe would be on the other foot? If we thought about it, we contemplated having young ones of our own.…
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Eat This While You Read That: Brena Bock
I’m very pleased to be able to write this post. Since this post is celebrating Brena’s first two publications, near simultaneously, it’s appropriate to do it with a double-header. I don’t think I’ve done this before, so buckle up, this is a long post! But I don’t think you’ll be sorry. First, there’s the…
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Bibliophilia: Don Camillo
I have to thank Peter Grant for allowing me free rein in his library for this. I think I mystified him when I was trying to explain what I’m trying to achieve with the Bibliophilia posts. However, in the process of trying to sum it up, I realized I’ve been saying the wrong thing…
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Hey, Look!
one of my covers in the wild! Amie Gibbons has a new series, and she brought me onboard her team to create the cover. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. The book looks good, too! Hah! You should go check it out on Amazon. Scorpions of the Deep is Urban Fantasy with…