I leave first thing tomorrow for London (where I will stay first with the Clutes, then with Rob Holdstock and his partner) and hang out a lot with Pat Cadigan (and other Londoners and visitors such as Michael Swanwick and Marianne Porter, and Liz Hand, who will be overlapping with me ( Read more... )

Not so far up north, but Northampton, Massachusetts and environs sure got a lot of snow.

Kelly & I stopped in town on the way home from Springfield (I took the bus there) and did some browsing and food/candy shopping. And we stopped at the wonderful R. Michelson Gallery , which has lots of children's book illustrative art, including that of my ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we're going to drive to Camden so that I can (hopefully) photograph the giant rabbit I saw in the window of a shop on Sunday. Then, we'll be driving to Portland for my flight, which isn't until a little after 7pm ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful quick overnight in Seattle and then Eileen Gunn took me to the airport to catch my 4pm plane home. All was well until we started circling around NJ. (the flight was due in 12 midnight). Lots of cloud cover, a bit of turbulence. We'd been told that we would be on the ground ( Read more... )

I'm home from a marvelous weekend in the country at my friend John's. This time my old roommate/friend Carol accompanied me and we had a ball. After John picked us up in Kingston and we checked out the Rondout --ie waterfront neighborhood of the city (disappointing as it looks like it's dying--with a lot of empty storefronts --but we did have ( Read more... )