Geez, how could I forget this part (continued from late-last-night's Spring Break postI've also been working on my next book some more, working out plot points and developing characters and scenes. Almost have it all in place! Which leads me to an insight ( Read more... )

It's been lovely so far! Man, I needed a vacation ( Read more... )

Classes start tomorrow: Excited! I always love the spring "Science, Technology, and Society" course, and even the "Foundations of Technical Writing" course is satisfying (doing two sections). Also doing a couple of Advanced Technical Writing and Editing sections, but they're very small this semester, and they'll be helping on projects I need to ( Read more... )

Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place
The stars my destination.


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1) Asimov's Science Fiction magazine editor Sheila Williams writes a lovely editorial about my SF workshop and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, including happy memories of riding on the back of my scooter ;-)

2) Excellent article examining the Occupy and T-Party movements - how they're really just two halves of the same thing:


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I was just reading a friend's post about getting shot in the butt by a drive-by, and I burst into a big crying jag. At first I couldn't figure out why that would bother me so much; he was okay afterward, and it even inspired him to stop carrying a gun, himself ( Read more... )

I take a surprising amount of pleasure from just driving around in the machine I designed and built myself, all pretty and rumbly and roar-ey, fast and smooth, vintage and comfy, chrome and black and bronze, elegant and antisocial ( Read more... )

One definition of joy: a warm summer evening with friends that includes a chorus of cicadas, hot links grilled on a fire in the back yard, cool beer, some sparring, racing around a track, a few Perseid meteors, and swimming in Clinton lake beneath the waxing gibbous Moon and distant lightning with coyotes or foxes singing in the nearby forest.


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Woohoo! And just in time, too: My Dad is coming for a few-day visit this evening, and tomorrow is the Douglas County demolition derby. FREEDOM! SUMMER CRAZINESS IS OVER! This means I get to work on my hot-rod Newport full-time for... a week or so! Then time to start prepping for fall classes ( Read more... )

My SF Writers Workshoppers made me a pair of TERRORIFIC cakes for my 2011 birthday. Here they are:


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