Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

This is the biggest spoiler I’ve ever seen.  Amazon.com, to advertise it’s Kindle, put up a huge blackboard in Washington, D.C. showing a ...

I read an interesting article today.  Apparently a thirteen year-old  daughter lipped off at her mother.   The mother changed the daughter...

Sara Loudon, who previously appeared on this blog in period dress , had her students at Covenant Christian Middle School perform the play...

On occasion, I listen to music while I write.  I tend to listen to instrumental music for this, so I can recommend the soundtrack to The H...

Here’s how one woman resigned from Microsoft.  Don’t worry, it’s a friendly video, set to American Pie .  Lyrics are below.  Long, long li...

A fascinating article tells of how a University of Washington professor claims off-the-shelf technology could generate plasma beams that a...

MaryRobinette Kowal gave me a lesson in public reading—assuming I get published and end up reading an excerpt from a novel at a convention...

According to Tereshkova 2001 ’s tweet, she would be at Norwescon.  I hoped to get a picture of her this year.  While I was sitting in a...

For the first time, I paid an extra $40 and went to the Guest of Honor Banquet at Norwescon.  In addition to a sumptuous meal, each guest of...