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Day 4,027: We’re Here

Thinking about all the women in my life tonight, all of the queer people I know, the gays, lesbians, bi, the trans people, the immigrants and the sons and daughter of immigrants, all the people tonight who are probably feeling like this country hates them, and they have good reason to feel that way. It isn’t decided yet, but I think we can all feel it already: the fascist is going to win. I’m so angry about that. I feel so much heartbreak and rage over what electing someone like him makes all th...

Day 4,026: Tippy Tappy’s

What will my life be like in three years?

You know, honestly? I hope it looks pretty much the same as it does now. I don’t anticipate in three years I’ll be able to move to writing books full time—I mean, you never know, maybe something catches fire and I can, I wouldn’t rule that out—but I like my life right now. I don’t need that to happen, you know? It’s not something I’m counting on to ‘save’ me…so if life in three years looks like my day today, I’m going to be very, very happy with mysel...

Day 4,025: Ira Unit

Invent a holiday. What would it be about and how would people celebrate it?

Easy. Star Trek day. Or, fandom-of-your-choice day. A day off every year to watch your favorite show, or go to a convention, have a long weekend, whatever to celebrate whatever your fandom is. I could use that holiday right now, thooooooo

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Making it quick tonight, because it’s already late. We “stayed up” to finish watching The Game, the thriller from the 90s with Michael Douglas. It’s sooooo gooooooood, you ...

Day 4,024: Saving Daylight

Is there a year of my life I would re-live?

2014 was a banner year. I’m not quite sure that’s what the question means, but I’ll take it that way: 2014 is a year I wouldn’t mind living again, because it was such a (mostly) good time. I wrote my first book, and it was an incredible, life-changing experience. I got married, in Hawaii, with all my favorite people in this world, and that was also a life-changing experience. I was doing fun stuff on the blog, like reading Sci-Fi classics and doing ...

Day 4,023: Donuts Make Me

It’s late, so no question today…long day! Good day, though. We watched the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much for the podcast. We’re back on that Hitch! It was a good one. A really good one. Underrated, I think. Is it quite up to the heights he reaches with North by Northwest or Vertigo? No. But it’s close. Really, really close. He was almost there.

We also had a spirited discussion about whether or not you can craft “strangeness” with time and effort, or if its just something some peo...

Day 4,022: Happy Halloween!

What historical event fascinates me the most?

Huh. This is a fun question…I know what the answer is for Stephen King: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He wrote a whole book about it, which I’m reading right now (and thoroughly enjoying). For me? Hmmmmmm…

That’s how I’m going to take that question, I think: if I could travel back in time, where and when would I go to? When I was a kid, it’d be to go back and see the dinosaurs. For sure. Without question. See what they actually looked l...

Day 4,021: Dubs

What is something I think everyone should know?

There are so many things…how to read. That their parents love them. The companionship of an animal. I think I’ll go super dad-practical, though:

Everyone should know how to manage their money. Which I guess is a combination of how to budget, how to track income and expenses, how to use debt—which mostly means how to stay OUT of it these days, with credit cards especially…and I’d even extend that to how to find jobs that can give you additiona...

Day 4,020: Coopey Burrito

What does it mean to be a kid at heart?

It means one has successfully resisted jadedness. Or put in the positive, to not lose one’s sense of wonder. Above all else, I think that’s what children possess upstairs that we come to envy as adults. From awe comes adventure, excitement, curiosity, energy, possibility…nothing is over and done. The world is your oyster. There’s a reason to get out of bed every day and get after it. And there’s joy in everything, the little, tiny stuff, too — with wond...

Day 4,017: Wake Me Up

I have three magic genie wishes. What am I wishing for?

Too much for my getting-ready-to-sleep mind to figure out right here right now, except to wish that my dogs would be healthy and happy forever. But, in the spirit of the question, I will share a very carefully considered wish that I had as a kid and I still remember to this day:

I wished that the Star Trek universe would be real, and that I could go and visit it whenever I wanted to. Like, I’d blink three times, or snap my fingers in ...

Day 4,016: Quick!

Making it a quick one tonight, but had exactly the Sunday I needed to. Nap brought me back to life, watched some sports, got the podcast up and a laptop back up and running, and coops had a cyst burst on his back but we were able to bandage him up and he fine.

All is well.

Night.