On the whole, I’m not impressed by the marriage of the comic book industry to Hollywood. The worldbuilding is slapped together, the stories are mostly violent tales of war, and the only thing that makes some of the characters ring … Continue reading
In May of 1979, I went to the YMCA in Wichita Falls, Texas, and signed up for karate. The same evening I went to my first class. It changed my life. That might make you think my life at the … Continue reading
This is part of a longer blog post that originally appeared in Crimereads. A major legal renovation of the Victorian period was in the area of divorce. Until the divorce laws were renovated in 1858, marriage really was for life. … 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
It’s hard to get inspired to write a blog post when the Book View Café website keeps going down because of problems with our hosting company. So for this week I’ve collected some of the senryu/haiku I’ve been posting daily … Continue reading
I continue to ponder inequality. Or perhaps it’s more than that, an endless history of things unchallenged or questioned. First, witches. My erstwhile significant other asked me the question: “Why are the males called ‘wizards’ and the females called ‘witches’?” … Continue reading
I taught my first empowerment self defense class last Saturday, on International Women’s Self Defense Day. It exhilarated me. A group of women, most of whom I didn’t know, listening to what I said, trying everything, asking good questions, and … Continue reading
The subject of my current project is social fantasy. It’s not a nice fantasy, but it will have, if not a happy, a satisfying ending. I’m thinking of publishing it with Book View Cafe, however, it might be too black. … Continue reading
November 17 is International Women’s Self Defense Day, a project put in place by the clothing company fodada. Along with ten others involved in ESD Global — the international empowerment self defense program where I trained last summer — I … Continue reading
Enough of travel, writing challenges, random thoughts. I have tried, oh how I have tried, to write and think about anything other than what’s going on. But today, I am cutting off my restraints and letting it all hang out. … Continue reading
