It’s time to talk about The Christmas Problem again, which I did last year and will repeat a bit this year, but most of it’s fresh. Or at least not dead-horse-beaten quite yet. Or maybe it is. I can never tell. Last year, I was in the dumps mainly due to a lack of both funds and sons, with the former having been stretched like a sheet of elastic putty over the newspaper comics so thin that the fat kid from Family Circus went...

Things have been quiet here at Coquetting Tarradiddles for the past few weeks. There are reasons for this, but they’re nothing too out of the ordinary. Let’s just say that things have been both Busy and Interesting, which is not always an altogether pleasant combination of activities. Some unfortunate and unavoidable legal issues arose with Brittany’s ex that needed to be dealt with, in addition to car trouble, work...

It’s Tuesday, which means Coquetting Tarradiddles is back to its regular posting schedule. I apologize for all the confusion while I got my feet wet with my first experiment in the serialization of my novel, Snowflakes In Autumn, but things should go smoother from here on in. I’m wrestling a bit with the Donate / Contribute / Whatever button right now as I try and persuade the demons chained to the walls of the PayPal basement...

Hello, kiddies. This is my first essay since I started posting Snowflakes In Autumn, so I probably have a lot to say. However, I’m going to keep things relatively brief today before we move on to the last two installments of Chapter Two later in the week. My days of late have been filled mostly with work, writing and party planning for Trey’s 4th birthday extravaganza. Due to his unwavering adoration of all things Super Mario,...

I’ve been thinking about Father’s Day coming up in June, so today I’m giving you a short and sweet guide to being a stepfather. And, while this may seem like a fairly specific sort of thing that has the potential to alienate a large chunk of my readers and drive them away to other websites filled with less niche-related bibblebabble, I promise you it’s not. It’s good advice for any parent, step or otherwise. It...

I’ll start today off by pointing out the obvious, in that the Coquetting Tarradiddles you are currently reading does not look exactly like the Coquetting Tarradiddles you’re used to reading. I assure you, this is entirely intentional. I’ve been doing a little bit of housekeeping (even those of us gifted with superhuman mutant powers aren’t immune to tidying up the place now and again), and I decided to stop featuring...