Archives

2019

July

Global Cooling in the Time of Yamabuki

26 July 2019 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Ox Cart of Japan in the Heian Period

24 July 2019 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Telling time in Heian Japan

16 July 2019 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2018

March

How Did the Yamabuki Series Come Into Being?

14 March 2018 · Katherine M. Lawrence

February

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What distinguishes a well-written female protagonist from a poorly-written one?

24 February 2018 · Katherine M. Lawrence

January

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The Ruins of the Taka Compound

24 January 2018 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2017

December

Cold Heart Release

23 December 2017 · Katherine M. Lawrence

March

An Open Letter To Wiscon: Because of Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ discRiminatory policies, we will not be attending

6 March 2017 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2016

May

Music to Write By. Samurai Stories

7 May 2016 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2015

December

Dancing in Samurai Film

27 December 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Yamabuki’s World – 12th Century Japan

22 December 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Archery and War

6 December 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

August

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Matsue Castle: Still original, now a treasure

10 August 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

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Will a long sword best a shorter sword? The “Nodachi” double-length sword.

9 August 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

July

Seventh Book, COLD RAIN, 冷雨, Added to the Yamabuki Series

22 July 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

June

Film Score Composer John Horner Killed in Plane Crash

23 June 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

A Woman Samurai in the Era of Genji

20 June 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

January

Yamabuki’s Sword — historic blade from her era and her swordmaker

23 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Quantity, not Quality, Time with the Muse

20 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

The World of Taira no Kiyomori

20 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Usagi Yojimbo – Rabbit Bodyguard

18 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Samurai Armor of the Yamabuki era

17 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Mythical Great Bay Province – Yamabuki’s Home

16 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

How Old Is Old In Heian Japan?

15 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

High Altitude Coffee

14 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Japanese Folk Songs in the Yamabuki series –Sword of the Taka Samurai

7 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

The royal carriage of Taka Yamabuki

7 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Cold Trail – Samurai Footwear

5 January 2015 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2014

December

Cold Saké – Inspired by a dark New England afternoon as night falls

29 December 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Cold Blood now released in paperback

19 December 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Taking Pre-orders for Cold Heart

14 December 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

November

Yamabuki’s poem at the Barrier Strait

28 November 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Who is the woman hero?

27 November 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

July

Looking for alpha readers

26 July 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

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Lancelot and Tammy

18 July 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Tokyo Shorty Writes About Star Festival in Japan

11 July 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

May

My own swords

13 May 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

April

S is for Shakespeare

24 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

J is for Journey

11 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

I is for Imagination

10 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

H is for History

9 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

G is for genre

8 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

F is for Fable

7 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

E is for Elegance

5 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

D is for Determination

4 April 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

January

Judging Books and Covers

19 January 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Constructing Medieval Japan for a Novel

15 January 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

In a scene from Excalibur, Arthur gazes at the sword in the stone

Dealing with the Fantastical in a Novel

15 January 2014 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2013

December

Yamabuki book launches – pillowbook of a samurai

22 December 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

October

Authenticity in Japanese Samurai Films - Gempei Wars

15 October 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

September

Is your company sales-driven or marketing-driven? There is a difference.

26 September 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Murasaki’s World - Heian Japan

20 September 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Photograph of Samurai Woman

20 September 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Woman samurai

20 September 2013 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2010

December

Rethinking the LAMP stack — Drupal Disruptive Open Source Part 2

2 December 2010 · Katherine M. Lawrence

July

Drupal Disruptive Open Source: Part I — From Brobdingnag to Lilliput

5 July 2010 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2006

January

Repositioning Interactivity - taking my Ferrari out for a spin

5 January 2006 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2006: Beyond Technology; interactive, HDTV, and Gen-X

4 January 2006 · Katherine M. Lawrence

But is it fun?

4 January 2006 · Katherine M. Lawrence

2005

August

The HP Way - misunderstood. Bottom line tops all

29 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

The HP Way - more than a myth

29 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Going back to DuPont

27 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

From typewriters to the stars

19 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Computer Voice Recognition and Ancient Sanskrit

11 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Personal media versus mass media

11 August 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

July

B-L-O-G-S: “Bequeathed Legacy Of Guaranteed Speech”

29 July 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

If Women Hold Up Half the Sky, Why Are They Not Heard?

29 July 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

I was blogging before blogging was cool

28 July 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

June

Yellow Pages, the Internet, and Browsers

1 June 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

May

Carbon Paper is Cheaper–the billions no one wanted

11 May 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

Empowering people

5 May 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence

March

The Power of the Web

20 March 2005 · Katherine M. Lawrence