(Continued from Part One) As far as we could tell, our house suffered only minor damage from the big earthquake, though downtown in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the central plaza was cordoned off while damage was assessed and cleared. And in … Continue reading
This was the year we were going to have fun on our trip to Puerto Rico, and not just work, work, work on our annual maintenance-and-repair visit to my wife’s family’s house in Ponce. When we arrived on New Year’s … Continue reading
The starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient and destructive AI uses it to travel uptime…
Continue readingWe already know the science fiction world lost another giant with the passing of Vonda N. McIntyre on April 1, but like everyone else here at BVC, I lost a friend and colleague. I first got to know her through … Continue reading
Continuing my saga of the repair of the Puerto Rico house… This was in some ways the most difficult trip of our annual series, partly because problems we thought we’d fixed last time came back to bite us again. Just … Continue reading
My wife and I have been in Ponce, Puerto Rico for two weeks, working on her mom’s house, which is now used mostly for vacation rental. Everything is a blur, including some of the stray cats who dash by, nearly … Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, my wife and I started our new year in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where we’re continuing the rounds of upkeep, repair (yes, including Hurricane Maria repair, a year and a half later), and steady … Continue reading
Lest you think that veteran (i.e., experienced, tempered, refined—don’t say old!) writers are immune to beginning writer mistakes, all I can say is, think again. It’s confession time here in the Star Rigger foundries, where we labor 24/7 converting raw … Continue reading
It all started with the pair of timpani my wife and I rescued from a middle-school dumpster a year ago. I’ve been playing those, off and on, down in our basement, not letting my lack of knowledge about kettle drums … Continue reading
(Third in a series. Here are parts One and Two.) One of the striking things about Ponce, and I guess much of Latin America and the Caribbean, is that there’s so much beauty right alongside the poverty. I don’t always … Continue reading
