Just a little note from life in the blogosphere: I’ve taken over the b5media blog: Offbeat Homes. Offbeat Homes is a blog I’ve been following since it started. It covers the weird, bizarre, or simply noteworthy homes from around the world.
Please stop by and leave your comments if you’ve got any. Also, if anyone [...]

I’m writing this post in an attempt to get away from the Wimbledon match between Mauresmo and Sharapova. It’s causing me too much stress, and Mauresmo totally blew the second set and I can’t deal with it. She had the match. SHE HAD IT. Gah.
Anyway…
Yesterday was a pretty TBSOL-centric day. I printed up all 50-something [...]

By Ingrid Diaz

For the rest of her days on Earth, Kassandra Cooper would thank the salad for saving her life. It had not been a particularly good salad, the leaves somewhat yellow at the edges, the carrots dry, the dressing runny. ‘Unremarkable’ was the word she would use to describe it when recounting [...]

Today, I felt like writing a short story. I titled it, ‘Short Story’ in Word, and sat there staring at the blank screen. I felt like writing a short story, I just didn’t have any ideas for a short story, which tends to cause a problem in the storytelling front.
So, I sat there, thinking, this [...]

I was actually mentally writing a blog post on the subject of (literary) sex scenes and how the erotic is subjective, but I haven’t had my coffee yet and I think my point got lost somewhere in my muddled brain. So we’ll skip all that for now and head for safer ground.
Elisa from the wonderful [...]

Midnight Island has gone through a bit of a makeover in the past few hours. I think I like it. I’m not sure yet. I’ll have to live with it for a few days before I officially decide.
In the meantime, everything’s pretty much the same. If you encounter any errors or broken links/pages, please let [...]

Just posted Chapters ten through twelve of TBSOL version 2. For those with LJ accounts, you can read it at the TBSOL v2.5 community. Or you can simply join my mailing list.

I’ve been trying to organize myself lately: to do lists, calendars, RSS feeds in folders, email properly labeled. All of it is unnecessary, I realize. There’s really not that much I need to organize, just things I need to do. It has always been the doing that gives me trouble.
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot [...]

Karine and I headed to the Lyon Pride parade today. It was pretty disappointing, actually. I guess NY pride spoiled me a bit. This parade had less than 10 floats total and none that were particularly interesting. But, oh well.
Pictures below!

Pictures are brought to you courtesy of our trip to Portugal last week