No title and nothing much to say. Not much news on the writing front. I’ve been trying to get work done, but very little is coming out. A bit every day or so, but nothing to cheer about. I think I’m watching too many movies and not reading enough. Or maybe reading too much and

As you know, over the past couple weeks I have been experimenting with making fresh sourdough from scratch. Though I’ve had some trouble getting my wild yeast starters to give sufficient rise to my dough, I have started to proof another batch tonight, with the hopes the the resulting dough will rise. I have gained

I recently found out that my story, http://www.mydevilswork.com/issues/1.11/index.htm “The Plumber” has gotten a recommendation for the HWA’s Stoker Awards. To be truthful with myself, this doesn’t mean too much, as I’d have to get many more recommendations to get anywhere near the top of the list, and only the top-recommended stories become “nominated” for the

Well, that was quick. Christmas flew by, and now New Year’s eve and day will go just as quick. Sorry I didn’t take pictures of the Fish Dinner, but things were hectic enough without me stopping every few minutes to snap pictures. On the sourdough front, my first loaf was a failure,. mainly because it

Okay, day three: I checked on my creations this morning to find that they have developed a particularly alcoholic smell, which is what i was looking for. There also seems to be a hint of cheesy smell…not in a bad way though. Anyway, I fed them both, but I only left the white flour starter

It’s really much better than it sounds. Unable to control myself, I decided to peek in on my starter dough. To my surprise, it had doubled in bulk and had become all bubbly and frothy! Nice. The smell still isn’t too sour or anything, but everything I have read suggests that the flavor is not

Sorry about the silly title. I was trying to figure out how to combine two seemingly unconnected topics. The first is that I have received a 2 month rejection from Glimmer Train for my story “Enduring at the Edge of the Storm.” I never really expected to break into that market, but I figured it

Well, here it is. I had wanted to take a picture of the actual starter dough, but I couldn’t find a memory card that wasn’t full, and it’s my brother’s camera. I started second guessing my placement directly over the fireplace, so I’ve moved it a couple times now, hoping I didn’t already kill whatever

I took it into my head to start baking sourdough bread. Last night, while watching Alton Brown’s “Good Eats,” and largely due to the fact that he was baking bread, I started to consider creating my own “starter dough.” I am not new to the whole bread baking world, and I have even made a

After my previous two posts, I thought it a good time to talk about the ugliest of all Christmas demons: materialism. Sure, there are a brigade of other Christmas-demons (the I-was-next-in-line demon, the make-a-bad-driver-worse demon, and the deadly food-and-alcohol demon), but I feel that the materialism demon is the worst of them. I recently found