June 26, 2018 Houdini Hot Wings “Mom, he’s out again!” The most idiotic of all chickens is this Buff Orpington cockerel who hates the safety of his pen. I mean, what is it with this bird? He has food, water, playmates, and protection from things that would pick their teeth [...]
An interview with a real chicken [...]
A sneak peek at Long Tail and the Big Storm [...]
July 23, 2017 DVD Books I’m one of these people who loves real books. The smell, the weight, the way my finger anxiously waits behind one edge of a page while my eyes finish it quickly – I’m immersed in the writer’s world and feel like the book surrounds me. [...]
June 24, 2017 Captured Places Have you ever walked through a place you loved so much you drew scale drawings of it and built models? I love architecture. I plan each building and area – in most of my stories, even down to the plants and what color flowers are [...]
June 13, 2017 Eggs of Giants One cool thing about keeping a flock of chickens (aside from the 5am alarms) is that they pop eggs out! Before we had chickens, I thought all eggs were white and exactly the same size and shape. With the first time our Buff Orpington [...]
June 6, 2017 The Real Egg Thief We had forty little chicks in the high brooder. It was back when our little 4-level brooder held three batches of monthly chicks in stages and by the time they were in the bottom level, they roamed the yard. (At 12 to 13 [...]
May 20, 2017 The Adventures of Long Tail (Rise of the Rooster) Fun Fact: The “Adventures of Long Tail” stories started with a dream my little brother had! We had just moved to a house where the neighbor had dozens of peacocks and peahens (boys are cocks, girls are [...]