Carolyn Kephart, Her Blog

Napoleon's mother wasn't an optimist. Whenever people congratulated Madame Mère on her imperial son's success, she would simply...

The passage of time should have its celebrations.  I took this picture at a local grocery last week:   Links to my writing, including previo...

For a long time I've kept, in addition to my journal, a list entitled Where I Was, distilling the events of a given year into a paragrap...

(Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) Among the many things that awe me, John Milton's writing is hig...

Tomorrow marks the autumnal equinox, officially the last day of summer. For the past many years I've viewed the event with regret eithe...

(Note: information about my other writing can be found  here .) I enjoyed writing Last Laughter so much that I'm thinking of more short...

I'm happy to announce the publication of my short story 'Last Laughter,' now appearing in the current issue of Silver Blade Fant...

In the Byzantine calendar, September 1 is the beginning of the new year. Since I was born on that date, I always (or at least since I became...

One of the most macabre yet sincere compliments I've ever received came from a friend about half my age who read my books soon after the...

This last month of summer makes me want to hold on to the heat and never let it go. The inevitability of another year's demise makes me ...

(Note: information about my other writing can be found  here .) I'm ferrying over the last of my Amazon posts here like Robinson Crusoe,...

(Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) ............... I love costume. Not mere clothes, especially not ...

3:05 PM PDT, May 20, 2009 I was lucky this year. My pink Minuet peonies were fat spheres packed with promise, on the point of bursti...

7:17 PM PDT, May 8, 2009 (For my short fiction and novel chapters, click  here .) I spent far too much time today ridding my co...

9:50 PM PDT, April 30, 2009 Before I get down to blogging about my topic, I’ll note that the Kindle editions of my books are now on sa...

11:33 AM PDT, April 24, 2009 The official drink of the angels, I'm convinced, is St. Germain liqueur . It’s celestial i...

5:45 PM PDT, April 20, 2009 My house surely must be blessed by the kami , since I've got a whole family of foxes living i...

12:43 PM PDT, April 15, 2009 (Information about my other writing can be found  here . Happy reading!) Life is often irksome, an...

2:56 PM PDT, April 11, 2009 Mildly seasonal as this post's title may seem, Ezra Pound's poem about faces packs all k...

11:45 AM PDT, April 8, 2009 Note: The tale referred to in this post is "The Kind Gods," published in Bewildering Stories and ...