Every now and then, I get a wild hair—this one’s #437—and decide to create something airy and colorful just because I love doing it. Being in the faux floral trade keeps me busy and pays the bills, but aside from curating the most realistic artificial […]

I can’t rightly remember how long I worked at The Orange County Register—nearly fifteen years or something close. Add five freelancing for the OCR, Los Angeles Times, and Sunset Magazine, and I’ve put in a solid twenty years of creating content. Considering that I didn’t […]

Sue Grafton’s mysteries are among the few I read straight through without pausing to study technique. It does no good trying to pin her down—I get completely sucked into the story, and before I know it, I’m surprised by the ending. She had a brilliant […]