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Marriage is a State of Mind – Cedar Sanderson

Marriage is a State of Mind – Cedar Sanderson

I have long been a fan of Dorothy Sayers. I don’t recall when I first read one of her books, but I know that I just recently read one of her essays on feminism and it sparked a thought – several thoughts, really – in my head. I wrote some of it down in Are Women Human? which is a composite of her essay of that title and my own thoughts.

As I was reacquainting myself with not only the fictional romance between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, b...

Fathers Day

I’ve realized sometime ago my books tend to have great fathers in them.

That is, of course, because I had/have a great father. Dad was the sort of dad any kid would want. For one he knew everything, from the nesting habits of local birds to how to translate the Latin inscriptions we came across on our rambles through the nearby woods. And he has this thing where cats, dogs, even wild animals, come to him. As they should, because he’s a good man. (Though not a Good Man.)

My concepts of honor a...

Milestones

As some of you know Dan and I will be renewing our vows of 30 years at Liberty con. Part of this is because we wanted to do it for the 25th, but we couldn’t being broker than broke and not even going to LC (if I remember.)

Of course, this is the way of the world, so we’re broke this year too. It’s temporary and more than usually self-inflicted because we chose to move this year to a rental and get the house ready to sell. OTOH it’s not entirely self-inflicted. Our other house is near a high t...

The Marquess de Queensbury Rules

Terry Pratchett, famously tuckerizing the Marquess de Queensbury as the Marquis de Fantailer said the Marquis was a small and timid man who made rules about all the places people weren’t allowed to hit him.

I confess to having less than no interest in the art of boxing. When I grew up boxing was the only sport dad would not watch on TV (oh, and bullfighting, but that’s not so much a sport.) and I never saw any point in it. I have friends who love it and weirdly I found an appreciation/interes...

Of Pigs, Fights and Life

This is where Sarah slaps herself for forgetting the old injunction about wrestling a pig. Or, more importantly, about forgetting her own childhood.

I was thinking the other day that the defining characteristic of my childhood was “loneliness” and this is true. For various reasons, some of them because I caught everything that crossed the village or even entered the county and was therefore quarantined a lot, but also because I was the youngest of a large brood of cousins, and the next younge...

Fun House Mirrors

I’m sorry I’m so late with this post. This time there’s really nothing wrong, except for catching up on things that were thrown out of rhythm in the last couple of days. (You know, you have a rhythm in a house, like who does dishes, and such. It’s all off between working on the other house, and the minor illnesses/accidents of the last few days.) When one thing goes off everything gets off kilter, in this case to the point of my coming to my office (which is air-conditioning intensive) withou...

I Am Excite – David Pascoe

*With apologies to number 3 son by adoption for putting this up so late. It’s been interesting around here for over 24 hours. As in multiple handymen, fridge-stopping working, husband injuring himself “interesting”. Thanks for your patience. – SAH*

I Am Excite – David Pascoe

No, not really. Well, sorta-kinda. I’ve been struggling a bit (more than a bit, really) with what I think is subclinical depression, brought on by, well, a lot of factors. Wee Dave being the Prime Mover (at least for this...

By Angels For Angels

So I sent my poor husband off to deal with electrician. I have a good reason. Electrician has a Russian accent. Imagine us trying to communicate. Now stop laughing. Yeah. Like that. So I have maybe an hour before other electrician comes by to give us his estimate and who knows how long before appliance movers (could be a few minutes.)

This brings me to something I was musing about this morning, right after I figured out what it meant that the lack-brains at File 770 (henceforth club 770) link...

Might Not Post Till Late

Because just had a call from electrician coming in less than an hour. You might want to go here, read this: http://madgeniusclub.com/2015/06/15/the-plucky-bots/

Until I can post.

This, That, The Other, Now With More Robots

Good morning Huns, Hoydens, Rapscallions, Dragons and Creatures of ill-repute. This morning I woke up to Peter Grant’s blog and news of a robot-army.

This is the money-quote:

They reportedly believe the current backlash against that company is basically ‘manufactured outrage’, deliberately stirred up by Vox Day (whose name is allegedly an expletive there now). Some have even asserted that the thousands of e-mails complaining about Irene Gallo’s statement aren’t genuine, but the product of a...