My first guest post of the Year of the Rabbit goes live! Here’s hoping blog posts breed like bunnies.
My first guest post of the Year of the Rabbit goes live! Here’s hoping blog posts breed like bunnies.
Even gnomes are bothered by the cruel Prague weather. Chapter 7 of “The Secret Life of Stone”.
A fitting end to the Year of the Tiger.
“I hold Sarah Palin responsible for all the deaths that took place in Tucson.” A new hybrid/AMBASSADORS blogring on the recent shootings in Tucson, Arizona.
The second installment in the Zuzu Irwin global safari series: Zuzu and her family visit the largest crocodile farm in the world.
Announcing my participation in the 2011 Stephen King Challenge! Organised by Book Chick City, read and review 6, or 12, or more Stephen King works in 2011. Get your read on!
A “Friday the 13th”-inspired installment of Zuzu’s Love Letter Project.
Trapped on a freezing tram in a blizzard that shuts down Prague’s public transportation. A real-life nightmare.
My crazy-quilting inspired creative process goes against the NaNoWriMo grain of racking up a 50,000 word count in 30 days.
My newest expat+HAREM collaboration is live: Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball turned violent in Prague when attendees were not allowed to dance.
Two very different perspectives of side-by-side Prague statues. Chapter 6 of “The Secret Life of Stone”.
A quick note about my participation in National Novel Writing Month. Yeah!
My newest guest post for the stellar expat+HAREM poses the question: Do warm places make warmer people?
Chapter 5 in The Secret Life of Stone, Zuzu explores one of Prague’s little-known denizens: The Vampire.
Approaching the ten-year memorial of my dear friend Wendy’s murder and I am struggling, still, to process the event and all the time that has passed.
An eerie new lens on Kostel Jana, Prague. Chapter 4 of The Secret Life of Stone.
The first installment in a new Zuzu’s Petal series, Zuzu Irwin’s Global Safari, that explores an amazing encounter at the Long Beach Aquarium in 2001 and its reverberations to today.
Something monstrous lurks in Prague’s Vltava River, and it isn’t toxic sludge from Hungary. Chapter 3 in The Secret Life of Stone.
My first ever piece of flash fiction is published in Glossolalia Magazine! Yeah!
This guy is up to no good. No good at all. Chapter 2 of The Secret Life of Stone.
The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.
My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.
A She Writes blog post by an African-American woman calling for “White Ambassadors To Help Me Cross Over” provokes a blog series, in which this piece is one of seven reactions.
From our inaugural guest poster, Yancy Jack Berns, we give you a beautiful piece about why it is important to surround yourself with women.
My friend Catherine’s amazing expat+HAREM post “Death at a distance”, one of the most powerful essays I have ever read, has left me processing a great deal of unresolved grief.
Zuzu narrates a strange Prague encounter with creatures she calls Cobblers. Chapter 1 of The Secret Life of Stone.
From MARTYRS to AMERICAN MONSTERS to psychological methods of trauma healing to Toni Morrison’s Beloved to Cold Case while discussing the healing powers of horror stories. (But no Lady Gaga this time
I was reminded of a strange dream I had a few years ago after recently watching the brilliant French film MARTYRS, and of course also manage to tie this back to Lady Gaga.
What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?
My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”