Does anyone still have the functional hardware and software to read some 5 1/4-inch floppies and extract / translate some files to current editability ( Read more... )

Well, I WAS going to have a concert slot at Confusion this weekend. Friday night, right after a themed filk ("Music of Middle Earth") that would have matched the largest, oldest portion of my Rolling File Cabinet of filkbooks from the Michigan State University Tolkien Fellowship ( Read more... )

Dr. Elizabeth Gross died today (Friday June 27, 2007) after losing a battle of almost a fortnight in a local hospital. Details as they become available ( Read more... )

The Harp ( Read more... )

Earlier this evening Alan and I got back from western Michigan and Dave's memorial / Fen 'n Filk ( Read more... )

Dave Alway, who died earlier this month on his way home after GAfilk science fiction folk music convention, was a good friend of mine and my husband Alan since the 1980's. For the August 19, 2006 gathering of Fen & Filk at Dave's Glimmerglass House, I was moved to finish this song in his honor that was many years tardy. Hindsight is telling me ( Read more... )