Better Now

I’m not totally recovered from my back pains, but things are much better now. Those who are  paying attention to my sidebar might have noticed I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of reading in the last week, at least compared to usual. I’m caught up on my subscriptions to F&SF and InterZone, with one issue […]

Ow Ow Ow

Back pain. Doing better. Not writing or posting much. That’s why. Reading a lot, though, while stuck on my back doing stretches and resting my weary back muscles. I’ll update on recent readings when I am feeling better… as well as launch into revisions of “Lester Young”, post long-overdue crits to friends, and start in […]

Question Popped

No date set, but she did say yes, and this time, since she’s wearing a ring, it really actually officially counts. I asked a couple of days ago (on Wednesday), but we were waiting till I could call my mom on mother’s day to let her know about it. Yay! PS: Yes, for those curious, […]

Trimmed Down, Baby!

I spent a LOT of time today trimming a story down. It’s my little bloody Christmas story, “Solvjaynghi’s Christmas Wish,” and while I didn’t get it as slim as I wanted — I was vaguely hoping I could compress it into 4000 words and give it a try at Clarkesworld — I did get it […]

Facebook/Nonstandard

It seems to me that Facebook is a rather amazing little bit of social software. It allows one to find one’s links to others across all kinds of boundaries — having lost touch, having dropped out of contact, having moved to a new place. However, the biggest limitation for a piece of software like this […]