So Here’s a Thing

Thoughts, ideas, recipes and experiences from the kitchen and garden of an English clinical herbalist in Santa Cruz, CA.

A rambling meander through whatever is going on in the book-flavoured world of Stuart MacBride. May contain whimsy, strange tangents, the word "bumhead", and cats.

Notes on book design and creative practice for writers, designers, and book lovers.

A geeky, cheeky, thrice-weekly digest of London's history.

GenX diary-inspired stories about coming of age, generational family drama and transitions. Conversations with authors about navigating life.

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

A place to talk about stories in all their forms, the craft that goes into them, and the role art plays in our lives.

This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.

Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?

The business of entertainment