What I read this month
June was no less busy for the household than previous isolation months had been, and in some ways was even more busy. On top of the usual busyness of taking car...
Author: Reay
Microfiction contest round one results: Sweet
I mentioned recently that I was entering the NYC Midnight Microfiction contest, wherein writers have to write no more than 100 words for a story the organizatio...
What I’m reading
There may be no genre I enjoy as much, but can be so disappointed by, as science fiction. Any genre has its good and bad, of course, but I find the best science...
Isolation Day 84 Game: Trivial Pursuit-Family Edition
The Family Edition of Trivial Pursuit is effectively the Junior version of the original game: Here, as you roll the die to move around the spoked wheel of the b...
What I’m reading
I’d heard the name Josh Gondelman for years off and on, but particularly recently on various comedy podcasts I started seeking out as some levity to worki...
New baked goods being had
If there’s one thing that this pandemic isolation has done, it’s made people want to bake. And I don’t mean just in a kind of idle way, but it...
What I read this month
As I’m having some sporadic issues uploading photos–and honestly it’s probably close to as fast for me to just type this up anyway–IR...
From the mouths of babes
I’ve written previously about the importance, as I’ve been reminding myself, of finishing creative projects I start. There are times that it’s...
Dictionaries gotta step up their game
I like coming across new words in the material I read. While it can get a bit tiring at times to have to look up, say, a few words a page (*clears throat loudly...
Isolation Day 64 Game: Lord of the Fries
In Lord of the Fries, players are employees at a chain of zombie-operated fast food restaurants. One menu from a variety is selected for all players to play fro...