Holiday writer’s woes

It was my intention to complete two stories while here on vacation but the progress so far has been almost nil. I think it has to do with my overall vacation mentality. First, it’s tough to find a chunk of quiet time where I can go and sit and write, but when I do find [...]

White Christmas

Last night, we watched White Christmas for the second time in a week. White Christmas is one of my favorite movies and it is my favorite holiday movie. The difference last night was that we watched it with Rosemary Clooney’s commentary, which was great. One feature of the commentary that I hadn’t seen before was [...]

My Daddy, The Writer

How about this wonderful gem of a gift from the Little Man for his daddy: It’s got all of my published stories listed on it, as well as the magazines in which they have appeared. (Click the image to see a larger version.) Very cool!

Christmas morning

The Little Man has an ear infection and managed to have a bit of a rough night last night. He slept in this morning, however, much to the chagrin of everyone else who wanted him up so that he could open all of his presents. He finally got up about halfway through our gift unwrapping [...]

Vacation Day 2

Yesterday began with a busy morning, moved into a lazy afternoon, and ended in a delightful evening. Kelly and I went Christmas shopping while the Little Man stayed home with the grandparents (and ended up sleeping most of that time!). We headed first to some local outlets, and then to a local mall and spent [...]

The Bridge of the Gods

Okay, someone really needs to reprint Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay, “The Bridge of the Gods” which is all about light and rainbows. I’ve been seeing stuff all over about remarkable “double-rainbows” as if this is a new or even a rare phenomenon, but as Asimov explains in his essay, there is a very good explanation [...]

Brute force writing

Yesterday, I read an interesting interview with Nancy Kress (in Locus) in which she talks about the three things she’s learned about writing over the years. It got me thinking about what I’ve learned from my own writing. I typically describe myself as a “brute force” writer, by which I mean that I learned to [...]

Vacation Day 1

Yesterday was our first day of vacation and it was pretty much what I hoped for. The early part of the day was spent traveling. We were all up early, shortly after 5am, in order to catch an 8am flight out of Reagan-National. The sidewalk outside the house was a sheet of ice when we [...]

The Little Man Cries Fowl

At the Grandparent’s house, there are several life-size, wooden models of birds. It turns out that the Little Man is afraid of these. There was one, standing on the floor, half again as tall as the Little Man and he would look at it suspiciously and walk past it carefully, never taking his eye off [...]

Making my fiction available online

I’m considering making my first two published stories more readily available online. My first story, “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer” is still available online at InterGalactic Medicine Show, but you have to pay for the issue. My second story, “Hindsight, In Neon” is only available in the Descended From Darkness anthology in print and [...]

Good morning from 35,000 ft

We are about 40 minutes into our AirTran flight down to Ft. Meyers, Florida. Since AirTran is providing free WiFi this month (courtesy of Google Chrome) I just couldn’t pass up the chance to post live from 35,000 feet. I didn’t see the lunar eclipse  last night, mostly out of laziness. I was up at [...]

What I plan on doing while on vacation

In no particular order: Basking in the warm mid-70s weather of the gulf coast. Swimming with the Little Man Eating pizza and drinking beer at Doc’s Having a night out with Kelly including dinner at Tommy Bahama’s Writing 2 stories Reading the rest of the Dozois’ The Year’s Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Edition Reading [...]

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