I recently discovered a great short story online called “The Silver Key” written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1926. It tells the story of a young man who loses his sense of child-like wonder at the world. One passage near the beginning caught my attention. The narrator, who had not lost his sense of wonder, describes … Read Post →
I love Seattle, and I love LEGOs. So the LEGO Space Needle that my wife and son got me was a perfect birthday gift. My son and I had a great time building it over the weekend. (He’s gotten quite good at building with LEGOs and following instructions, and I love that he sticks his tongue out when he focuses.) … View Photos →
I reviewed the new Fantasy Magazine for Mythprint back in June, and the review is now online. There was some great content (some incredible stories and one good fact article) in the new editor’s first three issues, and I look forward to keeping up with the publication.
A sequel can be both easier and more difficult than the original book. On the one hand, you don’t have to create your characters or build your world, but on the other hand, you’re stuck with what you’ve already established.Shanna Swendson
Leaving Portland International Airport (PDX) this afternoon, we had a great view of the peak of (I believe) Mount Hood above the clouds from the airplane.
Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.Stephen King
I took pictures of the moon (most) every day during the lunar cycle July 2-July 30. I’ll soon be posting the whole gallery, and I’ll later be writing up something about the moon and its phases. This is the picture I took July 29 at 6:00 AM, as the waning crescent rose just ahead of the sun.
The moon myths that I love are those that talk about the moon either in terms of wandering or in terms of chasing. The moon and sun both appear to travel around our planet from east to west in the sky, the sun going a little faster than the moon. If you watch the moon regularly at sunset after the new moon, you really do get the sense that the moon and the sun were traveling together but that the moon just couldn't keep up or preferred to travel at his own leisurely pace. ... … Read Post →
My son and I illustrated in LEGOs a scene from Arthurian lore, where Merlin directs King Vortigern to find the red dragon and the white dragon in the underground pool. (Read Story)
By chaining together definitions from a handy online dictionary, something is "imaginary" if it exists only in our faculty for making mental images of things. We all live in imaginary worlds. When I was an undergraduate philosophy student, I was fascinated by the visions of the world presented by Heraclitus and Parmenides -- the one, a world in a constant state of flux; the other, an immutable and immovable eternal present -- both haunted my thinking and played a major role in how I understand the world today. … Read Post →