In an effort to be more present in my own life and to not watch bad TV just to watch, and to spend more time reading and doing family things, we cut the satellite cord and now have just broadcast … Continue reading
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These days, I’ve been feeling like I’m juggling lots of balls and I feel like I’m dropping just about everything. I’m not, but I am. I can look at the last two months (from the beginning of the year), and … Continue reading
by Laura Anne Gilman I am – as anyone who knows me well will confirm – a New Yorker. In the good ways and probably most of the bad as well. I’ve lived in the city for the past … Continue reading
By Sherwood Smith As I get older (in a few days I’ll turn sixty) I look back over those decades. Before I retired from teaching, I was asked to emergency substitute in first grade the first week of school, and … Continue reading
While helping a relative clear out the garage, I was thinking about Things, and the cultural assumptions that barnacle onto them. And how those barnacles gradually drop away, until the things become either joke items, or else puzzling implements a … Continue reading
We are an anecdote-making species. We tell stories: the time Aunt Suze’s cat got stuck in the sewer; the time Uncle Moe was arrested for skimping on child support…. You don’t have to be a writer to make stories out … Continue reading
I recently went to a lecture on Jupiter’s Moon Europa by Dr. Don Blankenship of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. He is part of a team designing a radar system to explore beneath the ice that covers Europa … Continue reading