37 weeks (and 2 weeks to go)

For those who don’t know, 37 weeks is a watershed moment in any pregnancy.  At 37 weeks, the baby is considered “full term.”  Technically, it means that his lungs are fully developed, but I like to think that he’s done cooking, and is now just staying in the oven to keep warm.  Moreover, 37 weeks [...]

Caught up!

I am finally caught up on the backlog of science magazines!  That includes the June 2009 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, but does not yet include the May 23 NEW SCIENTIST (which I have not yet received). It is my hope that I will not fall this far behind again. In other news, we spent part of the [...]

36 weeks (and 3 to go)

For some reason, 3 weeks sounds a lot shorter than 4 weeks.  I’ve taken 3 week vacations that have zoomed by in the blink of an eye.  So there’s not much more of a wait before Zachary arrives.  At least we are finally done with everything.  On Sunday, we finished up the last of the [...]

Baby talk

Just a quick note to anyone has spoken with us in the past nine months or so: We apologize for all of the baby talk.  It seems it is just about the only thing we can talk about.  We very quickly gained the remarkable ability to turn any topic of conversation back to the pending [...]

35 weeks (and 4 to go)

Twenty-nine days and counting… We grow up learning the “simple truths” of pregnancy, in much the same way we start out by learning the simple truths of math. I grade school, as far as you know, 5 – 10 = illegal. In junior high school, the square root of -1 is illegal. These are simple [...]

Where’s your brain?

Funny comment from today’s OB visit. After getting a good look (via ultrasound) of the baby’s brain, our doctor snapped off two pictures of it which she handed to Kelly. “Here’s a picture of your baby’s perfect brain,” she said, “Keep it, so that when he’s thirteen, you can prove to him that he once [...]

Story title changed

Reposted from an Apex Magazine news item this morning: This morning, it came to our attention that Jamie Todd Rubin’s story “The Last Science Fiction Writer” (April Apex Magazine) shared the same title as Allen Steele’s “The Last Science Fiction Writer.” This had been causing some confusion, especially since Allen Steele had released a nice [...]

34 weeks (and 5 to go)

Today is the 34 week-mark in Kelly’s pregnancy and that means there are only 5 weeks left before our baby’s arrival.  (Kelly’s c-section is scheduled at 39 weeks, which is a common practice, and that’s why there are only 5 weeks left and not 6 weeks.)  It seems like these last 5 week-markers are good [...]

Where do you get those ideas?

At some point, every science fiction writer gets asked, “Where do you get your ideas?”  I got asked the question this past weekend and I thought I’d answer it here.  This is a question that has been answered and blogged about by writers, perhaps more often than any other.  But it is also different for [...]

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