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Author: Cedar Sanderson
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Social Creatures
Inside the human mind is a strange and wonderful place. Humans are social creatures: we are designed to support one another, not to exist alone. These last few months have brought this to the top of consciousness in a way I never expected. I spent this last weekend at a writer’s retreat. It was…
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Anniversary Day
This was originally published on Sarah Hoyt’s blog just before the First Reader and I were wed, five years ago now. The final line was what we spoke as we leaped a sword together, in symbolism of severing ties with our pasts while clinging to one another for the rest of our lives. Marriage…
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Bibliophilia: Tennyson
Most of the antique books I have acquired over the years are still with me because they were books I had read, or was going to read. This one is a little different. The cover caught my eye, you see. This edition of Tennyson’s poetry is bound beautifully. Or it was… the spine is long…
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Tricksy Portrait
The First Reader is not quite sure how to react to Father’s Day. He has no children-of-the-blood, but he has stood in loco parentis to children over the years, and feels like he has been a grandfather to more than a few. Now, with the Junior Mad Scientist and Little Man under his roof,…
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Scorpions and Cherries
One of the benefits of having been a military brat is having been there, done that. I was chatting with a colleague about the vagaries of military life, and assuring her that it had done me no harm to move while I was young. She is waiting for her husband’s first orders, packing house,…
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Heinlein Comes True
When science fiction loses the fiction. Papa Heinlein has predicted many things that came true, but this one… Well, there are serious ethical questions that arise from this idea. But it’s the route that Heinlein postulated in Methuselah’s Children: replacement of old blood with young blood. It’s almost poetic in an abstract sense. Given…
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Eat This While You Read That: Joe Monson
Joe assigned me a delightful task, with this book and meal. He didn’t send me a recipe, he suggested that I create an Adventurer’s Stew. You couldn’t possibly make a recipe for that. When you are out on a quest with your dragon… I should explain. Joe’s book to read with this meal is…
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Daily Art: Vessels and Veins
I’m not going to post the daily art here. I do that over at Instagram. You can follow along there most days. But today’s art is ill-suited to that venue… it’s also ill-suited to this, so if you click on the image you’ll go to a high-res version for all the tricky details. Best…
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Bibliophilia: Nature’s Craftsmen
This is the first book I intend to share as part of this series chronicling my love for books as works of art. There are far greater specimens, I am certain. I do not possess any that are museum quality. Some I bought simply for their beauty, but most are in my collection because…
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Unfinished
It’s only a leaf. It was only a few moments, in the shade. It was only a short wait. It was only a pen, and paper, and the delicate fernlike leaf of the Daucus carota and inspiration… And then it was unfinished. Joyfully. Abandoned. In favor of the company of love. And now it…
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Book Review: Joanna Godden
I am quite out of countenance with my coffeepot. Yesterday, as I am batching it (wouldn’t that be a feminine in my case? But the word eludes me) I used the french press to make a modest amount of coffee and it was pleasantly mellow, no bitter notes at all. Today, as I anticipate…
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Ideas
First of all, if you are in search of creative ideas, you might wander over to More Odds Than Ends and find a spare prompt that tickles your fancy. I’m not sure where the fancy is located – maybe it’s different for everyone? Regardless, there’s sure to be one that does it. And you…