I have neglected this blog for 6 months. Six months is also how long I have been in pain from a slipped disc. I’d like to blame that for everything that fell to the waysides in the second half of …read more

In preparing to attend TAM this week, I have been doing a lot of thinking about my elevator pitch about skepticism. On FB, I posted a link to a very helpful blog post by Emily Finke about this subject. How …read more

A week ago, I drove to the park to watch the transit of Venus, a rarity of an event. I mentioned this in my last entry, but that was a few days after. A whole week later feels like so …read more

For as long as I can remember, one of my favorite authors has been Ray Bradbury. As a teenager, I perpetually had a copy of a collection of his short stories checked out from the local library. The summer I …read more

A friend of mine has been trying to gently persuade me to go to TAM for awhile. I had initially thought it wouldn’t happen, then thought perhaps it might, and then had given up on trying to go this year, …read more

Camp NaNoWriMo starts in just under 30 minutes. I opted out of my first cabin, despite landing a Firefly fan right off, because no one else was very chatty. Got moved into a new cabin, and opted for people my …read more

Earlier this week, I decided to sign up for Camp NaNoWriMo. I just got assigned to my cabin, having chosen “Surprise Me!” as my preference for being sorted. I figured why ask for folks of similar age/genre when I could …read more

I almost passed out at Whole Foods last night. It was silly, really. I had just donated blood about half an hour earlier, and I felt mostly fine when I left the blood center. I stayed about 10 minutes after …read more

If asked a year ago if I’d traveled much, I would have said, “Not really.” The biggest city I had been to at the time was Philadelphia, followed by Indianapolis, and Austin, TX. I know this because I just looked …read more