Good wishes to all who are reading this for your Winter holiday, whatever it is ( Read more... )

I have rarely, in my life, been so without a long-term plan for where I was going or what it was that I was going to do. With work, there had always been a plan; with the books, there was the finishing of them; with the painting, there were the shows; and with the church, there was a clear agenda of what had to be done ( Read more... )

Lots of things have been happening, some of them looked bad when they happened, but some of it has turned out all right ( Read more... )

A UGC Steel team, even ( Read more... )

I am done with being moderator of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Longmont, Colorado.

It's official.

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Things have gone well for the past couple of weeks.

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On the 14th of February it was pretty obvious I had an eye infection of some sort in my right eye, but I'd had a bunch of those in the past, and on the 15th John was going to Fort Collins to do a talk about the flood recovery work he was doing, so Jet and I went with him as support and as witness. It was important and a good thing, but that ( Read more... )

This story was inspired by the play of the game at the 2013 Big Bad Con using the Tenra Bansho Zero gaming system, which is beautifully elegant about emulating anime stories ( Read more... )

My co-author and I wrote individual short stories last December, exploring some of the side characters that we created in New Amsterdam while writing Hearts Under Fire. It was a lot of fun weaving the various threads of their lives into the places we weren't able to explore in the first novel. It was also fun to coordinate a few of the details in ( Read more... )

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