Happy birthday my love, my queen, my White Lady, otherwise known as Creampuff, Your Royal Highness and Goofy McDerpface (but I think she thinks her given name is really “AvaNO!”…Continue readingHer Majesty’s Natal Day…
On my father’s last living birthday, he was making plans about what we would all do on my mother’s upcoming next birthday (in May) and on mine (July). It was…Continue readingOn this day…
So, Seattle 2025. here’s a con report starting with an introductory bracket and ending with a closing bracket. We begin with a scheduled pre-con visit by two houseguests, Mark Roth…Continue readingMy Tenth Worldcon…
so, how and when did you learn to read? Here’s my story – i was four years old and my mother was reading “Heidi” to me at bedtime which I…Continue readingThe Word World
Those of you who might have been following the plot might know that over the last handful of years or so i had basically not been writing – not much,…Continue readingAnd so. Back into the breach…
In the context of looking for something else entirely, I came upon a list, in my father’s handwriting, listing my family’s perambulations from 1960 to 1995. starting from the day…Continue readingProfessional Tumbleweed…
A couple of the autumn/winter rains have been heavy, and have resulted in massive backsplash spatter on the doors of my office downstairs under the deck. I have also been…Continue readingI can see clearly now…
I am just in the process of reading a novel which is set in an English suburb in the years ‘twixt the two WOrld Wars, and in a house that…Continue readingHouses with names
the world is on fire and only getting worse. And Amazon is basically saying that you don’t own the Kindle books that you bought and that they’re fixing to essentially…Continue readingescape hatch