Greetings from the cave! It is I, your friendly neighborhood absent blogger, coming back from a long and not-so-relaxing stint of living life in 2020. Seriously, grad school kicked my tail at the end, it was horrible. Took a whole three weeks to recover enough to even think about writing. But, a new year is fast approaching, so I'd better get the last vestiges of...

Femininity is a rare commodity for a book character. As I re-engage with the reading world, I am surprised anew at the sheer lack of femininity in many supposed "female" characters. Many blog writers have already written about the over-presence of "kick-butt" female characters, so I believe a restatement of that is pointless. What I want to address, however, is the erasing of the...

 To my fellow Catholic writers, we have a job to do. We have been gifted, by Almighty God, with the talents of writing and/or story-telling. This talent is part of a cultural institution that is intrinsically tied to humanity itself. Stories reinforce cultural values and practices and even preserve aspects of history. It is one that we cannot afford to bury. The world needs our...

 Greetings from the cave! 30 days and 30 million chocolates later, it seems another November has been relegated to the past. This particular NaNo seemed to zip by without much notice. Not much contact with others, not much progress. It's weird and I don't like it. But then, that seems to sum up the entire year, doesn't it? Best Parts of NaNo: - Making the midnight start. That...