When our people first came to these lands, they brought with them the original sheep from the south that founded the flock you see here now. To support these sheep, we cleared pasture and paths and put up fencing and shelters, and a few young trees, most barely saplings, were cut down. The sheep ate …
Last evening I sat in on a Zoom that was a celebration of the release of Vol 2 of the Farmer-ish Annual. (In full disclosure, I have a piece in their submission queue for an upcoming online edition.) Farmer-ish is the love child (my phrase) of Crystal and James (Ron) Sands who farm and raise …
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” – Fred Hoyle Everything I learn about cosmology, physics, and space science increases my understanding of even the smallest thing around me — the air, the light, the life of trees and of mold, creatures great and …
I thought some people would be interested in seeing the evolution of our ideas for the cover of our recently released novel, Olivia Lark’s The Sum of Love. This is a sampling only — I developed many more variations of each of these, with different stock photography, different titles, and different typography. By way of …
We’ve talked many, many times about using cloth towels and rags in place of paper towels, and despite sounding like a smart idea, it has never taken hold (with me). This time we (Marsh) bought like a 50-pack of towels, bar-mop style towels. When they arrived, they seemed smaller and flimsier than we’d been picturing, …
Start with a credible geography, and a credible ecosystem overlay. Not just for map-based adventure fantasy and Lit-RPG, where often the map comes before the manuscript, but for finished manuscripts, too. The manuscript itself won’t give you that explicitly. You have to know the story well and reverse engineer it. But if you’re lucky, the …
To reach out in the holiday spirit to our friends and family, we co-designed and printed this card in 2019. Among other things, it is a celebration of the simple fact that we’re able to do that — that we have the time, attention, planning ability, and energy to engage in this simple civilized act. …
Had a first visit here at Three Bunny Farm from my eldest, her husband, and her 11-month-old boy. We’d been thinking about this day for many months, and it was everything we could have hoped. Eleven months is pretty young to form lasting impressions, though, even of baby lambs and crowing roos and flooffy bunnehs, …
Here’s the thing: we got here from that damned pocketwatch, that someone dropped in a field. Yes, it’s a marvelous design, intricate, ordained, functional — it could not have occurred by accident. But nor is it accidental that when that analogy was first proposed, the gold pocketwatch was indeed the very pinnacle of human design …
I’ve read, and been in, a lot of debates about Intelligent Design (ID). Leaders of the ID movement famously do not like to come too close to defining what an actual Intelligent Designer would be like (can’t risk hypothesizing something that could be empirically disproven, after all!), leaving actual scientists to worry about the question, …