Hasta La Pasta – Gluten Allergy Dining Cards

If you’ve checked out my recipes you may have noticed that they’re gluten free. Several months ago, I discovered that if I didn’t eat gluten, I didn’t get hives or the little blisters/ulcers I used to get in my mouth all the time. At first it...

If This Doesn’t Touch You, You Have No Soul

There. I said it. No, I am not religious, though I was raised in a variety of faiths, but I have always thought this was one of the most beautiful songs in the world. If you recall it vaguely but not completely, here is the poem, written by Henry van Dyke in 1907 to...

On New Adult as a Genre

I originally wrote this as a comment on a post over at Heroes and Heartbreakers, but I felt as if it deserved a post of its own because so many people in my personal community are talking about NA. This post is slightly modified from that, for both clarification and...

Total BooX, a Totally New Reading Payment Model

I’ve been fascinated by the idea of Total BooX since the first time I read about them, so the other day I when got an email saying their site had gone live, I immediately hurried over to see what I could see. Total BooX is a pay-as-you-read service. Instead of...