Feminisim, Genre, and the Apex Publications

I grew up in a matriarchal household in the San Francisco Bay Area, so my understanding of feminism is really skewed since my whole life the women of my family have always been the breadwinners, the independent types, and a grandmother who never learned to drive but always told me it was because she didn’t want to- it wasn’t ladylike. Fast forward to my writing career. (And let’s forget my unfortunate first book contract for the duration of this post, shall we?) I ended up gravitating towards Apex. Back in the day (2005) they were a small press before small presses were a Thing, they published sci-fi and horror, ran an annual Halloween short story contest, and they were known for publishing two friends-of-friends (who are both now my own friends)...

The Infamous Irish Butter Post of 2010

So, I have seen KerryGold Irish butter in the stores before and scoffed. I mean what makes Irish butter so special I’d want to pay three times the cost of regular butter? Then I went to Ireland. As I have mentioned, their cows are grass fed on small-medium family farms and a “large” factory in Ireland, like the Guiness or Jameson facilities, are still tiny compared to the juggernauts of US and Chinese industrial centers. So when I tasted their butter, I tasted cool days and fresh rain and the joys of locally produced everything. The best meal we had in Ireland was smoked salmon from the Irish sea sliced thin and laid on freshly baked brown bread which had been generously slathered with Irish butter. Costco is carrying KerryGold right now and Matt...