reading for mental health
March 11, 2021

I don’t know about you, but I’m heading into the new year feeling at least a little less anxious than I was last year, but it’s not quite enough. My mental health still isn’t at prime production and it’s affecting my health. I’m stress eating and gaining the weight I fought to lose. I’m not…

science fiction and urban fantasy books
March 4, 2021

Using Science To World-Build We’ve known for a long time that science fiction will sometimes influence science and that science will sometimes influence science fiction. Sci-fi authors typically love-love-love science, which is one of the major draws to the genre. Readers typically do, too. But some of us aren’t quite as brainiac about it as…

March 2, 2021

We work super hard. At the end of the day, for whatever reason, our brain fuel is spent. Our energy tanks are empty. And the only thing we can do is watch TV. Reading takes brain cells. Or, at least, it feels that way. It’s not as easy as watching TV. However, here are seven reasons why…

women cooking oriental meal in kitchen
January 20, 2021

A good kitchen witch uses everyday ingredients they can find in almost any kitchen. It doesn’t matter if she wants to hex a neighbor or help a friend heal a broken heart. She can enter her kitchen, throw some ingredients together, and create a recipe that will help. Ingredients aren’t the most important things that…

October 16, 2019

I know many of you have experienced this as well. You’re going along. You’re pushing hard. Harder. Harder. HARDER. HARDER. HARDER. HARDER HARDER HARDER And then… you just can’t anymore. You’re just stuck. You come to work and you’re sitting there going, “I know I can do this. I just did a, b, c, d,…