Happiness is a book

From I. Asimov: A Memoir: If I want to recall peace, serenity, pleasure, I think of myself on those lazy summer afternoons, with my chair tipped back against the wall, the book on my lap and the pages softly turning. There may have been at certain time in my life, higher pitches of ecstasy, vast [...]

Home late this evening

It’s 9:30 and I just got home. I hung out after work and waited for Todd and Karl to finish up and then we headed over to Champs to have some beers, and eventually ended up eating dinner. Last night, I gave my story “Wake Me When We Get There” to Todd and he read [...]

Spring Bliss

It’s beautiful here in Arlington, VA today. Sunny and warm with a light breeze. The beginning of spring is here. Every April I read the same three books, Isaac Asimov’s autobiographies, starting with I. Asimov and then In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt. This has become an April tradition for me for [...]

Back to writing

Spending the last month reading Gotham left no time for writing. Now that I’ve finished the book, it’s back to writing. I got started on the train ride home this evening, finally getting around to proofing the first draft of “The Graveyard Shift”. I got through 10 of 78 manuscript pages on the train. More [...]

REVIEW: “Inclination”

Title: “Inclination” Author: William Shunn Source: Asimov’s Science Fiction (April/May 2006) Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 I’d known that William Shunn (shunn) was coming out with a new story for some time and last night, I finally got around to reading it and I was not disappointed.

The Main Street Electrical Parade

When I got home from work this evening, I had a package from Dan and Megan. It turned out to be the 50th Anniversary: A Musical History of Disneyland, a 6 CD collection and coffee table book. What a cool present! Thanks Dan and Megan. How can you listen to the Main Street Electrical Parade [...]

Transition to middle age, redux

Another indication of middle age is the ability to write the sentence: Did you happen to attend Junior High Scool at Porter Junior High from 1985-1987–roughly twenty years ago? On Sunday, evening, I was browsing online, and did some searches for some old friends with whom I’ve lost contact. Normally, I don’t come up with [...]

You know it’s spring when…

…Crossing the Potomic river on the train in the early morning, you see the Georgetown crew team on the water, rowing back to school.

Pouring on the steam

I’m just about 1,000 pages through Gotham moving into the final stretch. I think I can finish it by the time I go to bed on Friday. I think I can, I think I can…

New wake up time

I’m adjusting my wake-up time on “school” nights beginning tomorrow morning. Instead of 6 AM, I’m getting up 20 minutes earlier. This is so that I can have breakfast at home, rather than take it into work with me. I can’t stand plain oatmeal, and if forced to eat it, knowing that it would save [...]

Pasta and Maragaritas?

I stopped at the groecery store on the way home from work today to pick up some groceries–and it took longer than usual because I had to actually check the sodium content of the stuff I was buying. When I got home, I actually cooked, something incredibly rare for me. I made plain pasta and [...]

Oatmeal

So this morning I had a bowl of plain oatmeal (from Au Bon Pan). I added some raisins and a little brown sugar for flavoring, but that didn’t really add much flavor. I think I’m going to buy some cinnamon and add that for flavoring instead. In any event, I ate the oatmeal, which should [...]

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