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So. Let me take you back a little while. Back in 2002, I attended the World Fantasy convention in Minneapolis – I did the usual things one does on such occasions, even met at least one author whom I fangirled … Continue reading
Category Archives: Personal
What is it about retirement, very hot weather, and a pandemic that can make one look forward to doing the laundry? I ask this basic question because unlike my siblings and my friends—or maybe they just want me to think … Continue reading
This one might be a little depressing. That crystal ball we never had is looking more and more like a Magic8 Ball, giving you veiled and often irrelevant answers to increasingly desperate questions. Everything that you thought you knew about … Continue reading
So, you may have noticed that I just, JUST, had a new novel come out – “The Second Star“, now doing the rounds in paperback, ebook and audio editions and garnering reader responses and reviews that are making me very … Continue reading
Couple of things that came along in the past couple of weeks. One: The Clog Saga I owned a pair of those Dansko clogs – you know the kind I mean – and loved them right until a large chunk … Continue reading
Okay, so here’s a saga. When we first moved to this place, into our house, there were a couple of things we did immediately – we hooked up power, we hooked up water, we set up garbage collection… we set … Continue reading
So here we all still are, still largely in we-ain’t-going-anywhere-just-yet mode (aside from the guys who apparently think that wielding an assault rifle on the steps of their state’s Capitol will somehow get them a haircut by a disposable barber … Continue reading
I found it difficult to start writing this. Normally it’s easy enough to talk about what’s happening in Australia. There’s always lots of talk about. It was a bit harder during the bushfires, because I didn’t want to talk about … Continue reading
It’s been said that a man with one timepiece knows what time it is (or thinks he does, anyway – and can organise a life around that…) Any multiplication of that, and they will go out of sync, and who … Continue reading
So my husband wears a beard. He’s ALWAYS worn a beard, he’s had a beard for the nearly 20 years we’ve been married, he had a beard for a LONG time before that, that’s just how he rolls. I don’t … Continue reading