Alexandra Brandt

I am a nerd, an artist, and a general layabout. A daydreamer. A writer. I’m in love with things that are otherworldly and grand and a little bit magical. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my properly wild and wonderful writer husband, two horrible-yet-adorable cats, and a lot of mess. I get to write and design things for a living, but since it's for a medical practice, there's not much opportunity to write about swords and magic or superheroes. Hence my side projects, including nerdy fiction...and the blog, of course.

Oh, hey, Iceland.

So I have a very grand excuse for not updating since my first (rather silly) intro post a month ago. Three words: Scotland. Archaeological. Tour. (With a 2-day stopover in Iceland, just in case SCOTLAND and ARCHAEOLOGY wasn’t over-the-top enough.) I had initially planned on blogging every few days or […]

Most things have a beginning.

I started out with the title “Everything has a beginning,” but I thought that might be a rather bold statement to make. I don’t know all there is to know about life, the universe, and everything. It might be deeply arrogant to assume everything began at some point or another, […]