A personal note…

My mother passed away yesterday. She was in her late nineties. She stood about five four, the granddaughter of western pioneers: she was born in an Oklahoma farmhouse just after statehood, and didn’t have a birth certificate until it began to matter.  She grew...

computer archaeology…what was your first?

Downbelow Station was the book that convinced me I had to get into computers. First Don Wollheim (DAW) said it was too long and maybe I didn’t need all the scene-setting: you know that book has a lot of scene-shifts, some scenes only 10 lines long. So I rewrote...

got the pond leak stopped…yay!

We have not found many glitchs with the Savio brand pond kit. Everything has worked as advertised: it’s virtually maintenance free, never has to be drained, is very, very clear to the bottom (brown-tinted, but clear)—and does not make a lot of...

moon landing

www.tor.com asked me to do a short piece for their series on the moon landing. Which I did, if you’re interested.

Hosting a party for a quarter of a hundred intimate friends…

We are breaking in (I hope that’s not prophetic) the garden with a party Friday night, and Sunday afternoon, which will be a sort of mini-convention, starting tonight with a dinner on the falls. Spokane Falls, that is, which should be very pretty, even in this...