Other people have normal lives, right? I can only hope so. And I desperately want to hope so because I can’t even seem to take the dog out for a walk without something weird happening. And today’s weird event took… Read More ›
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How Many Chickens in a Lifetime?
I watched an interesting show about the history of food on German tv the other night. Although the program was way too smugly sure of itself about facts that I didn’t think were necessarily set in stone (or necessarily true… Read More ›
Some Short Story Writing Tips
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 ›
Three Socks
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 ›
Just a Few Days Left
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 ›
Rage Against the Fitness Tracker, part II
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 ›
Columbines
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.
What Blade Runner Is Really About
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 ›
Rage Against the Fitness Tracker, part I
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 ›
Who!
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 ›
The Germanium Geranium 