My friend and fellow Clarionite Justin sent me an email the other day, asking for advice on writing novels. He had just finished the first three chapters of his novel, and it wasn’t going well, and he wanted my advice on finding beta readers to set him on the right path. I got a little …
2011 archive
Feb 27
Smiley Ball 19
I think this is one of the smiley balls that I traded away for someone else’s pot. This is the last of the smiley balls I had photographed, except the small ones.
Feb 24
Smiley Ball 18
Here’s another one of my smiley balls. I think I still have this one. I placed it near a fountain, hoping that it would eventually get damp enough to grow moss. So far it hasn’t, but then again, we do live in the desert. I bet it would make an awesome chia pet.
Feb 23
Book Review: Anatomy of an Epidemic
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker This book is written with an agenda, and I usually don’t like one-sided arguments, but in this case, the argument is one that I was already disposed to believe: namely, that taking mind-altering drugs does …
Feb 21
Mosaic Tiles 4
This is the last of the batch of mosaic tiles I made in this kiln load. The crawling design on the green tiles is from overfiring. It is not intentional, but I’m going to pretend that it was. I have so many of these that at some point I ought to think of a design …