It’s been a long long while since I last visited this blog. Life got in the way and I wasn’t feeling up to sharing at the time. Now, this coming new year, I’m moving into a new and exciting phase of my life. Here’s the story of what happened. As you know, I was planning […]
In fiction, author surrogates are generally derided but the fact that my character, Alley, closely resembles aspects of me is no accident of terrible writing. I’m not that lacking in self-awareness nor that self-indulgent. I made a deliberate choice to write a story involving myself and changed the name because the book is actually a […]
Sometimes with the Chinese tea ceremony you’ll notice cute little clay figures sitting on the tea tray. These are tea pets. The initial brew of pu-erh is generally poured away as you are just washing and waking up the leaves. If there are tea pets on the tray, it is poured over them as a […]