A Los Angeles Times and Bon Appetit Best Book of the YearDiscover brown-flour baking with the charismatic Rose Wilde—a grain geek hungry for texture, flavor, and diversity of ingredients.In her extraordinary debut cookbook, Rose Wilde shares her joy of grain. From buckwheat, barley, and brown rice to spelt, sonora, and sweet corn, Bread and Roses is a comprehensive guide to choosing ingredients with an impact beyond the plate, res...

Into the land of dreams I go, where phantom thoughts may be more important than the world as it is. Does belief supersede reality in our thinking, or do our beliefs really reflect what is truly within one another? Perhaps reality is a mingling of the inner and outer worlds, much like when lovers embrace. These seven short poems from a lesbian perspective look at love, lust, hatred, knowledge, rage, being, and love again. Several of the poems are erotic - adults only.

Thinking back over the years, I haven't heard many sexual jokes about women that were tasteful. To each their own, but I like my work to be a misogyny-free zone. Mustering up my best humor skills, here are twenty-six jokes you can tell your friends. From groaners to ones that made me laugh out loud, I include all the good and borderline jokes I can recall. The jokes vary from the tastefully dirty to the just plain dirty. The word "twat" as an acronym? You wouldn't believe the punchline! Do...

However many millions of people hope for good outcomes, it is still only hope. What's the difference between hope and illusions? I used to believe that if a person loses their hope, they will also lose their mind; I'm not so sure anymore. I think that destroying false hopes is the only thing resembling an answer to life's challenges.We live in a world with too many choices to harm ourselves and others, and not enough reward for the truly good choices we can make. Bending to the law...

Words can leave us drained and empty, or they can send us into the delightful tumult of dreaming. Passion is etched into each of these seven short poems, as I anticipate the revolutionary forces to come in the world. If you think the backlash against feminism is powerful, then take a close look at the reactions of feminists to the entrenchment of patriarchy. You will see that women don't simply want to save their brethren in the here and now - we want to save a planet from unbridled greed ...

Turning progressively darker, these nine poems finally emerge into the light of self-knowledge. The unnamed protagonist has the gift of imagination that helps lead her from one epiphany to the next. Growing up a vilified lesbian, she uses the powers of her own mind to defend against the pain and ennui of her youth. She returns to her family's neighbourhood a new person, capable, confident and happy. Uplifting and invigorating, A Happy Wanderer's Tales will inspire the reader to seek streng...

Daphne Morelli is trapped in a gilded cage.She fought to escape her family, only to be caught by a billionaire. Possessive. Commanding. And determined to keep her.Emerson LeBlanc wants to own the little painter. She's become more than his obsession. She's part of his collection now.Except she's more perceptive than he'd like. Her artist's eye sees the shadows in him. She paints his pain on stretched canvas.He's determined to own her. She's d...

There was a girl in the corner.She saw what they did to me and I saw what they did to her.Except when the lights were off and when they put us in confinement.I was 16 and I don't know how old she was.We couldn't talk; we couldn't even look at each other.That would lead to punishment. I was punished a lot because I had to see if she was there.There were dozens of us and yet at night, it was only her that helped me sleep in that nightmare of a ...

He’s the man I can’t forget. I’m the client he can’t touch. But some rules are meant to be broken.I’ve spent my whole life being a good girl, and where has it gotten me? Nowhere. So I do something reckless, just for me. I let my best friend drag me to The Players Club where I taste freedom for the first time…and a dark, intense stranger catches me watching what it looks like to truly surrender. With nothing but his voice and hands, he gives me the most explosive ni...

Playing with Forever: I’ve wanted Chase for years, but much to my frustration, he’s always considered me off limits. When I walk into the Players Club with one goal in mind, to find a man who will give me what I need, it’s the maddeningly dominant, possessive (and I soon discover, pierced) Chase who refuses to allow any other man to touch me. He gives me a night I’ll never forget, a taste of what is possible, and I want more. With him. But Chase is a man with a dark past and secre...

KillianMy best friend's little sister. Entirely off-limits. A craving I cannot resist.Savannah Levine is the one woman I cannot have and the only one I want. I keep her at arm's length, but there's no denying that she is an addiction I'm too weak to ignore.One taste. One touch. I should have known it would never be enough.Selfishly, I steal touches and kisses in the dark, keeping us a secret from those closest to us. But in a circle like min...

A sample of my recent work (compare "Bound" by this author.) Perhaps we'll perish in a trouncing by tyranny, or maybe we'll win a new day to keep, share and expand our liberties. The seeds of destruction have been getting laid for a long time now, and no quick answers will be found to our current troubles. Hopefully this volume of four poems will contribute to your resolve to keep tyrants at bay, and help you carry on in this increasingly Orwellian world. No adult-only content.