I've been spending an inordinate amount of time on the phone with my local post office due to an aggressive number of mysteriously missing packages.

Hurricane season has officially begun.

It's getting hot in...well...everywhere, it seems.

I was out and about after a string of severe weather here in Texas, and I snapped a photo of some strange clouds.

Severe storms seem to be everywhere lately.

When researching topics from other languages, I always look up the pronunciation.

It's been foggy here in Texas. I mean...really foggy.

The tooth pain is entirely gone now, a massive improvement from a few weeks ago.

Want to hear a two-word horror story?

"Are those three things in the title related?!" I vociferated, interrobangedly.

I've been working on a new short fiction project and just launched it on YouTube: Phonographic Visions.

I recently learned that there are doll conventions.

We've been having some pretty foggy nights here in North Texas lately.

I've been eyeing some revisions for my first novel for a few months, and I decided to test my ideas in the first chapter.

Querying a novel makes you look hard at everything, especially your opening pages.

Cooking blood is one of the worst smells.

Now that the newsletters are at a slower pace, I've had time to catch up on a few things.

There are a couple of coyotes hanging around my part of Texas.

Have I ever mentioned I like dolls?

Planning new fiction projects takes a lot of time and a lot of thought.

Texas has some pretty awesome storms. I don't think I've mentioned that yet.

In case you haven't heard, AI is getting pretty good at generating images.

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I don't think it would be shocking to anyone if I said Texas loves guns. But did you know that Texas also loves gun-shaped things?

I grew up in the Southern United States (aka "the South"), but I've been away from it for many years. One of the things I noticed when moving back to the South...