Rob and I have a tradition of making sushi New Year’s Eve and staying in. Tonight, on my way home, our neighbor was standing in the lobby and ready to hop on the elevator. I rode up with him, chatting about New Year’s plans and, quite spontaneously, I invited him and his wife to join […]
My niece gave me a cold for Christmas, so we’re going to take advantage of it to show some tricks for dealing with throat ailments. For kicks, I recorded the whole post this time. You can listen to it here OR you can read and just listen to the example clips. Listen to Reading Aloud:
Reading Aloud 16: The Common Cold Read More »
(This was from before Christmas) No photos today, sorry. Emily came back from China and we dived into work. Good heavens, it is so much easier to figure things out when the designer is right there to answer questions. First thing on the list were the tentacles. We decided that if we shortened them a
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All the good SFWA boys and girls seem to have dutifully posted about the pending close of the Nebula preliminary ballot on December 31. On the off-chance that you are a SFWA active member and haven’t recommended any fiction yet, I would like to recommend a simple strategy. My opinion on the Nebulas is that
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Irene Gallo had this bit of loveliness on her blog, The Art Department.
Herzog and the Monsters Read More »
And with a belated gift from my little niece! Yes, the delightful germ-monger has presented Rob and myself with colds. His struck yesterday and mine began kicking in this morning. We’re fortifying ourselves with Chinese food and heading for bed early.
We are all packed and will be on the way in about half an hour. I’ll drop you a line when we get back to the apartment. While I’m in transit, why don’t you tell me what your top three favorite gifts were this year. I’ll start: Soup spoons in our silver pattern A Ryobi
Click through, and if you don’t just faint from sheer longing to be in one of these libraries then you clearly aren’t a reader. Or you are already in one and jealous-making.
Yesterday we went over to Grandma’s as the rest of the extended family descended on her house. It was good to catch up with my many cousins to find out just a little about what was going on in their lives. There’s never enough time, of course, especially as the family keeps growing. I met,
Swing by Shimmer and enjoy the .pdf of our 2007 Holiday Bonus Story, “What Child is This I Asked the Midnight Clear” by Ken Scholes.
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Just in case you needed to know where Santa was, NORAD tracks Santa and gives up to date reports on his location. You can also tie in Google Earth for real time tracking. Emily just spoke to the very nice people at NORAD who told her that Santa is on his way but in Africa
NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2007 Read More »
I spent the day hanging out with my nieces and nephew. Most of the time involved playing in Emily’s “house” in the magnolia tree out front. There was a weird discomfort for me about that. See, though I acknowledge that it is a superior space for a pretend house, as a child I never, ever
Not exactly a Christmas story Read More »
Modern Mechanix posted this old ad for Corona typewriters. We have a slightly later model and I have to say that their claim that it’s the “finest, the fastest, the smoothest and easiest-running” is pretty darn true. It’s the machine that we are most likely to pull out when we need to type something because
Today was largely relaxing, except for our outing to buy Christmas presents. We borrowed Dad’s car and drove to the mall to pick up some things. Now, you have to bear in mind that this is really the first time either of us has driven since moving to NYC six months ago. We’re really used
Driving and Christmas Radio Read More »
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