Last week I read some of the short stories submitted to the sci-fi magazine I’ve been helping with. It was my first time slushing fiction and I learned a lot. Not about what makes a good short story, mind you,… Read More ›
I hadn’t blogged in forever and that was bugging me, but I couldn’t think of anything to blog about. So, I did what any thoroughly post-post-modern middle-aged woman would do and tossed the problem out to Twitter. The most intriguing… Read More ›
Long story, short: I’m helping start a new science fiction magazine! And (if you’re reading this before October 30, 2021) we’re in the last handful of days of our Kickstarter campaign to gather enough funding to pay professional rates (as… Read More ›
Part I, if you did not catch it, is here. But to summarize, the fitness tracker totally screws up its heart rate measurements at critical exercise moments, meaning that everything it calculates about fitness based on that (minutes of exercise… Read More ›
Although I have done my best to eradicate them (they do not play well with others), we have hundreds of columbines again this year, in every shade imaginable between pinkishly white and as purple as midnight.
Every now and again the very obvious truth of some matter will wriggle its way through my thick skull and kick me in the brain and I will wonder how on Earth I did not see this before. That happened… Read More ›
If we’d played our cards right, my GPS watch and I could have walked from Montreal to Mexico City and back again, such was the distance we’ve covered together in the last seven years. But the poor thing is now… Read More ›
Early April’s snow showers have given way to dry, cool, sunny days and frosty nights. And dry is not what the vegetation is used to here. The last time April was this dry, which was a couple of years ago,… Read More ›
I can’t decide if this makes me happy or sad. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information
The Germanium Geranium 