Tales from FAR Manor

For pix of the beach trip, scroll down or jump to the previous post … These trips north give us all a chance to escape the free-range insa...

In an attempt to stretch vacation, I took Thursday and Friday off as well as the entire week. We made the hotel reservations, and only after...

So over the weekend, Daughter Dearest drafted me to help her fiance move… to FAR Manor. With The Boy moving his stuff back to Newnan, the ot...

This is set in the same world as The Last Lightkeeper … which could be Termag, if the Dawn Greeters’ creation myth is to be believed. It’s d...

There’s an open field between FAR Manor and the in-laws place, with a utility line crossing the road and the field. A hawk has been perching...

As yummy as they are big! Last month saw a return to the typical summer weather we get in Sector 706—we had more 90°F days in June than ...

With Daughter Dearest’s wedding a ways out yet (T minus 350 days and counting, give or take), details are a little squishy. One thing that w...

I started this project last fall, but only now have I finished it. As you may recall, there was a steep slope between the driveway and the...

Boom! And… there’s the Launch Cannon! The sixth story in the Accidental Sorcerers series, Beyond the Sea of Storms , takes Sura, Mik, an...

I’ve mentioned Rosie, also known as Doofus, Roomba, and GET OUTTA THE KITCHEN!, on Twitter but I don’t think I’ve done it here. Making n...

Welp… Daughter Dearest has gone and made it official: So, this happened… I won’t be posting the wedding pics for a year or so, because...

Still bloggin’ after all these years… A lot of stuff has happened in ten years, since I began with a post about replacing rotted siding ...

With fridayflash.org winding down this week, I thought I’d write something about closure as well. It’s not nearly as fun as Chuck Allen’s Cl...

Last week, I talked about exclusivity and what outfits like Smashwords need to do to break it . In the comments, Patricia Lynne made a good ...

Blink’s earlier adventures: Blink Blink’s First Adventure | 2 | 3 | 4 Superhero Summer Camp (this one): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ...

Blink’s earlier adventures: Blink Blink’s First Adventure | 2 | 3 | 4 Superhero Summer Camp (this one): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ...

Last week, Indie ReCon kicked off with a talk with Mark Coker of Smashwords, called What Authors Need to Know in 2015 . Of course, toward th...

Blink’s earlier adventures: Blink Blink’s First Adventure | 2 | 3 | 4 Superhero Summer Camp (this one): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ...

The conclusion to last week’s post … Matos stood quiet a long moment, then heaved a deep sigh. “No. But how…? We have children!” “Yo...

Dubbayou tee EFFFFF? Reality is truly stranger than fiction… especially on Planet Georgia. Just go read this . Seriously. Now the qu...