Daily Life
Well, How do YOU Judge a Year?
Every year that passes holds some special significance to the future, adding something that only that year can to the tapestry of our history. 1929’s stock market crash altered the…
Read MoreThat One Guy . . .
At any writer-heavy convention you can almost always find that one breakfast table where a bunch of authors congregate and bullshit together. Ah . . . tell stories together. There are typically…
Read MoreMore or Less Stupid
I got a call from a reporter for a local magazine last week, wanting an interview for their September cover story. Because I am a writer who prefers cave life…
Read MoreMarried in EPCOT
In the old-timey days when phones didn’t leave the house, Lena and I took our first trip to EPCOT together. I did a video about that trip and our time…
Read MoreThe Umbrella
Back around the time Lena and I were first married, she worked for a guy named Mike, who owned a magazine. Mike wasn’t a bad guy …well, okay. Mike was a bad…
Read MoreTo Catch a Panda
Not long ago, I had my Apple credit card number stolen. (I think it happened when I was getting gas at an unfamiliar station, but who really knows.) At any…
Read MoreLiving Forever
I have a somewhat arbitrary goal of writing a minimum of twenty books before I stop, and given the low bar for the job, that likely means when I die.…
Read MoreThe Star Trek Lamp
A while back, long enough ago that I am no longer worried about anyone involved reading this, Lena and I entertained fairly regularly. We’d have couples over and take return…
Read MoreBuilding a Universe
Be nervous when the UPS guy shows up with a hand truck. The UPS guy is bigger than you and knows how to handle heavy boxes. A hand truck means…
Read MoreGambini the Great
As long-time readers are aware, Lena, like the French in general, loves Little House on the Prairie. While it may at one point in history have been considered a “good”…
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