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Pardon a short hiatus from the Guatemalan ramblings while I dig myself out from under this pile of work. In the meantime….

The word “soma” came into Sanskrit from some even more ancient Indo-European root tongue. I’ve seen it translated as “flesh of the gods”; it referred to a ( Read more... )

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The Hugo awards are coming up. The ballot deadline is in March. Everybody is promoting their eligible works, making their picks, turning in their votes. But in the interest of not taxing your attentions, precious reader, rather than bombarding you with stories I loved and ( Read more... )

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Great with a turkey and gravy sandwich: my new Literary Beer entry is up on the Small Beer Press blog! This episode follows more of my quest to resurrect a long-dead style of beer for the modern age, using wildcrafted and homegrown herbs in place of hops, in order to save ( Read more... )