Electric Ink Blog
Noodles and Spam – Regular and Posh
This is another recipe from my upcoming book, Empty Nests. I need to start it by saying I love my mother, I really do. We have a good relationship, that's gotten better since I moved out. And when it comes to special occasions she can cook. If you think my A&P...
It’s Like Living with a Monkey – My Grand Personal Analogy for Mental Health, Treatment, and Getting Through the Day
It's like living with a monkey. Not one of those cute helper monkeys, or even one of those little plague monkeys from the movies. It's living with a big, angry, wild, possibly rabid, monkey. It spends every day throwing shit at your walls. It pulls all the dishes from...
Roast Pork with Garlic Gravy
In honor of the release of my next book, Empty Nests (Nested Heart #1), this coming June I will be publishing a few recipes for dishes that appear in the book. The first one, which will be the base for a later recipe, is Roast Pork with Garlic Gravy. Ingredients 1...
The Q Word – A Personal Sociological Linguistic History
Let's start by putting this all into correct context. I am old by internet standards. I was born in 1981. Ronald Regan was in his first term. The Space Shuttle had its first flight. Harvey Milk had only been assassinated two and a half years earlier. Most states...
Free Read: Riverbank
Pulp Literature Magpie Award for Poetry 2014 Honourable Mention Riverbank Autumn The walnuts split simply between two stones under the pomegranate tree. Winter We never found the toy soldiers sunk in the irrigation mud between one summer day and the next....
Clean Reader – won’t somebody please think of the children
In all the noise being made about Clean Reader I haven't been able to stop thinking about the kid. For those who missed it Clean Reader is an app that changes dirty words in ebooks to clean ones. According to their website- One day our oldest child came home from...
Why I Effing Hate Little Critters (it’s for literary reasons)
This is basically a short rant concerning a part of parenting. If you are a parent you can probably understand how it is easy to come to loath perfectly good children's books. They can be wonderful, sweet, interesting, beautifully illustrated stories and after the...
In Which I Won a Few Things and Lost a Few Others
Show Day. First off I forgot the plum jam at drop-off time. There was only a two hour window and the show was 40 minutes away. This is depressing because the plum was the best thing I made all year. Of course this year was really about feeling out the judges and...
My Mother, Myself, My Daughter, and Spock
I was woken up at seven this morning by a text from my mother informing me that Leonard Nimoy had died and that she was crying in her office. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen my mother cry and I don't have to use all my fingers. Star Trek was a...
In Which I Will Attempt to Win All the Things PART 2 – Baking
This'll mainly be a picture blog because I'm still baking and don't really have time to write much. Right now I have a chocolate cake in the oven and a sponge cake in a pan waiting. It's 2pm right now and my oven has been running since 8am. Did up some of the...
In Which I Will Attempt to Win All the Things
I am taking February off from writing. Instead I will be spending this month preparing for the local A&P (Agricultural and Pastoral ) show where I will attempt to win everything. Okay, that's an exaggeration. Next year will be domination. For those wondering...
Me, New Zealand, and Rugby (you know that game kinda like football but with no pads, no timeouts, and no touchdown dances)
I did a guest post over at Lissa Kasey place last week. It's about rugby and a bit about being an expat American in New Zealand. Me, New Zealand, and Rugby (you know that game kinda like football but with no pads, no timeouts, and no touchdown dances) The...
Two Eight Two (free read)
Quite some time ago I wrote a little post about my first attempt to write science fiction and today felt like a good day to dust off that story and present it to all of you. So here it is, I hope you enjoy it, feedback in always appreciated. Two Eight Two By Ada Maria...
Crockpot Writing or Why I Failed NaNoWriMo 2014 Miserably and Why That’s a Good Thing
(This is an expansion of something I posted on Google+ back in early December) Why I failed miserable at NaNoWriMo 2014. Two reasons. Reason One: I was sick. Everyone in the house was sick. Not joking here, at least one person in the house was sick every day of...
Actually Really Good Gluten, Dairy, and Soy Free Chewy, Fudgy, Chocolate Brownies
Hello and welcome back for the first time, or something like that. Here at the start of 2015 I resolve to actually post something on this blog at least every other week. No. Really. I swear. I have reasons for this, the big one being that I have two novels coming out...