Mid-Summer in Pennsylvania

I’m happy that the cleome (spider flower) is blooming now! People will stop thinking we are growing marijuana in front of our house. Still waiting on the tomatoes though. Hungry, Hungry Hippos have nothing on our goldfish. Sometimes they leap right into the air...

Backing Up

via GIPHY Earlier this week, I wrote a great scene in my WIP. One of my main characters witnessed someone who lived in her apartment building pass through a solid wall after revealing herself to be not human. I was thrilled with the way it came together. Then I went...

Multi-Dimensional Vocabulary

I first encountered the terms ana and kata when reading William Sleator’s book The Boy Who Reversed Himself. (By the way, if you’re a YA science fiction/horror fan and you’ve never read anything by William Sleator, you should remedy that immediately.) Ana and kata are...

Multi-Dimensional Adventures

At some point in high school (or possibly middle school) I stumbled across the book Sphereland by Dionys Burger. It’s a mathematical adventure in geometry – and yes, I know that sounds terrible, but it’s really a lot of fun. I re-read the book countless times....

Never Gonna be Big in Iceland

So, I’m on Twitter, and I see this post come up with my name and website: I put the sentence through Google translator — which identified the language as Icelandic — and got this translation. The new favorite author of mine is definitely Dianne K....