Happy New Year from the island of Rhodes and the god of healing, Aesculapios! NOTE: Since our trip last fall to Greece to research more settings for my novel-in-progress, THE ARIADNE DISCONNECT, Thor and I knew we had to return … Continue reading
We ate our Christmas dinner at the Moss Beach Distillery, a restaurant on the Pacific coast just south of San Francisco that dates back to the early twentieth century, when it was known as Frank’s Place after its founder, Frank … Continue reading
As the latest newsletter reports, we at Book View Cafe are having a Boxing Day Sale from December 26 through January 1. Everything in the store is 25 percent off. The newsletter also notes that Flit, Phyllis Irene Radford’s dragon, … Continue reading
When we think of godawful 19th century food, gruel comes immediately to mind. Remember Grace Poole bringing the mess to a boil in the attic for the mad wife Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre? The very word recalls little Oliver … Continue reading
I’m not big on resolutions, New Year’s or otherwise. More often than not, all they do is set me up to fail or put me in competition with others, and who needs that? However, I do see a great deal … Continue reading
So many people joke that in Australia everything’s different. Compared with the US and the UK, Christmas is also different. For me, anyhow. Australia is one of the most secular countries on Earth. This has led to Australians claiming certain … Continue reading
Wikipedia asked me for money today. I am happy to give what I can. It’s the best starting place for research—or maybe not the best but certainly the easiest. I was going to write about chess, but I think I’ll … Continue reading
Happy Winter Solstice! Season’s Greetings from the beautiful Greek island of Rhodes. NOTE: Since our trip last fall to Greece to research more settings for my novel-in-progress, THE ARIADNE DISCONNECT, Thor and I knew we had to return to this … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Welcome back! If you missed last week’s New Worlds post due to the BVC outage, you can find it here on my own site, discussing “codes of honor” — chivalry, … Continue reading
When I was in college, my father introduced me to a young man working with him. I’ve forgotten the man’s name, and almost everything else about him, except for one thing: he wanted to give me a piece of jewelry … Continue reading
