On Saturday night, spur of the moment, my husband, my daughter, and I went to see Sorry to Bother You, which starts out looking like an urban maybe-failure-to-launch comedy and then becomes, not just sort of Science Fictional, but profoundly … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2018
If you haven’t read part one and you want to, click here. I left off last time having talked about the procedure of the courtroom and what I’d learned. Now I’ll move on to the evidence. The first person on … Continue reading
She bought the property in the Santa Clara Valley in 1884. Almond, apricot, peach and plum orchards covered the flat tidal lands at the bottom end of San Francisco Bay. The eight room farmhouse was under construction just outside a … Continue reading
The ancient Greeks populated their myths and tales with fantastical creatures. Join me for a sampling of images and monster stories from my recent visit in Greece. The relief carving above, with a centaur and dragon/serpent involved in a battle, … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Not every society likes the kind of ostentatious clothing described in last week’s essay. Sometimes they run in the opposite direction — at least in principle — decrying the use … Continue reading
At an event at East Bay Booksellers here in Oakland for Nell Painter’s new book, Old in Art School, a member of the audience asked why she felt the need to go for first a BFA and then an MFA … Continue reading
My publisher, Pegasus Crime, forwarded to me the Publisher’s Weekly review of THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER, my first Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko Mystery. So, I’m taking a tiny victory lap around my coffee cup this morning in celebration. They said (and I … Continue reading
I was looking for a way of explaining why I wrote one of the characters in Langue[dot]doc 1305 the way I did and I found an article that never quite reached print. The editor asked me to change so many … Continue reading
A potpourri of nifty discoveries to remind us, in the midst of so much political anguish, what an amazing universe we live in. Baby Snake That Lived Among Dinosaurs Found Preserved in Amber Using uranium-lead dating, a research team … Continue reading