So yesterday, after eating way too much, I was chilling and listening to Christmas music (I much prefer traditional songs played on an Irish wire-strung harp to what they play in the stores—are we over those now? 😂) and it occurred to me that what was really needed was a…
Sei Shōnagon is regarded as one of the two great prose authors in Japan’s history, the other being Murasaki Shikibu. Her Pillow Book and Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji are Japan’s two great prose classics, and together they form the twin pillars of Japanese literature. The stature of these two women in Japan is…
Ok, I admit it—that was a tease. But I like to think it’s a tease with a purpose. If you watched to the end—you did watch to the end, right? 😄—what reaction did you have? No, don’t tell me. 😉 That’s personal and not at all the point. The point…
Here’s another chapter of Falling For Raine. Here’s the note: my older brother (whom I live with) and a health incident Monday. He’s feeling OK now and pretty much back to normal but we’re getting it checked out and keeping a very close eye on things, especially for the rest of…
I’m posting this short update to make it explicit that Stripe is lying. They say they won’t process payments for (among other things): Pornography and other mature audience content (including literature, imagery, and other media) designed for the purpose of sexual gratification Any artificial-intelligence generated content that meets the above criteria This is a…