Sasha Kehoe

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

Real World Magic: Urban Fantasy & Why We Read It —

Shortly, urban fantasy is what you get when you take magical elements and write them into the real world. Urban fantasy is most often contemporary and set in a city or town.

Side note: Years ago when I told a friend I was writing an urban fantasy novel, he asked me to clarify what that genre is. You see, he’d thought it was black fantasy. Because I’m a black person from an urban area. Bless him, I’m sure he’s encountered more diversity by now, wherever he is. No, not urban like the hood. Good l

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

The Messy Art of Backwards Outlining — Sasha Kehoe

Does a story ever truly come to us fully formed?

It can certainly feel that way. As if you’re pulling a yarn that weaves itself into a grand tapestry that was somehow always there, hanging in the back of your mind. It may come to you in a wave, or you can hear it coming over the hills, and all you have to do is catch it and write it down as quickly as possible. Then once it’s passed, you’re left with this pile of thousands of words. Then what?

In another article, I go into why writing episodic

Sasha Kehoe • 21st January 2022

Product Review | Mighty Paw Smart Bell —

When adopting from anywhere, there’s a chance that your puppy will have picked up bad habits.

Our dilemma when we adopted Val was that it became obvious rather quickly that she’d been “trained” using pee pads.

Using a pee pad is not the same as being housebroken; it means that your puppy has been taught that it’s okay to pee on some things in the house. When they move in with you, they then try to figure out, hmm, what can I pee on here?

This is almost worse than having a completely un-houseb

Sasha Kehoe • 21st January 2022

Getting Backyard Chickens? Here's What You Need to Know! — Sasha Kehoe

You’ve decided to become a flock master. A coop keeper. A chicken daddy, if you will. Most likely you’ve already covered the basics: What to feed your chickens. How to house them. What to do with excess eggs. What comes next, for as long as you have a backyard flock, is all of the hard stuff. Once set up, chickens are generally beyond easy to keep, but a little preparation goes a long way when the going gets tough. Here are a few essential tips for starting your journey as a bona fide backyard c

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

Our Journey to a Grain-Free Puppy Diet —

There were always dogs, growing up. In a low-income household, dogs provided entertainment, comfort, and protection. Not exactly as luxury items and by that I mean it wasn’t a “spare no expense” household when it came to pets. More like, “they’ll have to be ok”. For the most part, they were. Basic maintenance and healthcare was ever all I’ve known when it came to dogs. Not until now, with our pit/lab mix, have I learned how hair-pullingly frustrating it can be to have a dog with real needs.

Mee

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

7 Ways to Tackle Your Winter Garden Blues — Sasha Kehoe

We gardeners and homesteaders dread the winter months. Once the leaves drop, the fruits dry up, and the days become long, dark, and cold, we stare at our barren lands from indoors, our foreheads plastered to the windowpanes as we wait for it to end. It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, winter can be the most important season of all! While you may have a long growing season or stay busy with a fall garden (or reaping the benefits of a strangely extended season - I was still harvesting tomatoe

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

Pooka, aka Furby Meets Donnie Darko — Sasha Kehoe

A struggling actor (our protagonist, the shy Wilson Clowes) lands a job as the one and only mascot of what turns out to be the hottest toy to drop on the market right before Christmas. The Pooka is all the rage, and all Wilson has to do is appear as Pooka at a designated toy store. There is a Pooka dance: arms up, together like a triangle, out like an offering, and then fly like a plane. And the theme song! Kids absolutely love it and Pooka is the must-have toy of the year. This success gives Wi

Sasha Kehoe • 20th January 2022

Wildling, aka Teen Mom of the Wild — Sasha Kehoe

As far as the actual story goes, it’s simple but not executed in an interesting way. Setups are blandly introduced and get paid off in ways that aren’t satisfying. She has visions of the northern lights, so she just…goes there. That’s where her kind are, which we could have guessed. She gets shown a porno by her love interest to show her “where babies come from” (when, in context, it would have made more sense to show her a birthing video) and she later has sex with him and gets pregnant. We see

Frontline Property Management • 4th January 2021

How to Manage a Property Remotely

We’ve previously discussed tips on managing a rental property when you live out of state. Since then we’ve all faced the challenge of conducting both our business and personal lives in a socially distant, remote, fashion. Property Management is certainly no exception to this necessity. Moving forward and flourishing despite remoteness requires an effective online strategy and willingness to adapt to the times.

Remotely managing properties is certainly nothing new. The disparity between real est

Frontline Property Management • 31st August 2020

Property Management Record Keeping: The Basics

As you undertake the endeavor of managing your property, you’ll quickly realize that it’s not just the property itself and the accounting that you need to keep in order.

You will need to “bring the receipts” to any situation that may arise as a result of discrepancies or legal issues between you and your tenant, vendors, or anyone else you conduct business with. Property management is rife with paperwork! Document retention guidelines will help you know what paperwork to keep, and for how long.