I had to write a very short paper, almost so short I wouldn’t call it a paper. However, I thought I’d share it here, and expound a little bit, … Continue reading →
Not all of our eating adventures end well. And it really isn’t that this one ended badly, just with disappointment. I had been to Pho Mi in Miamisburg once before, … Continue reading →
As a companion piece to my Mad Genius Club post on a century of Fantasy in prose, here are some illustrations from the two oldest books I used, the 1890 … Continue reading →
I had not intended to review this book, nor even read it. I’d read a bit of the sample months ago, and put off by the beginning and the cover, … Continue reading →
This year’s Nobel prize for Medicine was awarded to a three-man team who made the interesting discovery that rats have what they call a built-in GPS. It seems that it’s been … Continue reading →
No, not the sea battle, although that is a pretty amazing story in and of itself. Nope, this is me looking at the semester and noting I’m midway through it. … Continue reading →
Monday is not a kind day to me, this semester. After years of running a business where Monday was essentially my weekend (coming as it does after two-three days of … Continue reading →
The First Reader, who once traveled around the world courtesy of the Practical Joke Department (see Heinlein’s Glory Road to find out where that reference came from) told me he’d … Continue reading →
Posted over at Mad Genius Club… Picking up the thread of Peter Grant’s blog on vacations yesterday, and harking back to David Pascoe talking about writing with an infant in … Continue reading →