Wave Without A Shore

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 up on an Oklahoma farm, rode to a one room schoolhouse on a horse, [...]

…and had a real nice birthday lunch at Anthony’s for Sharon, with Joan. We had the corner window seats, by the falls. Salmon fish and chips, yum. The only possible flaw in it was the chips, which, I swear I’m going to drop a note to the chef, are just too ordinary—the best with salmon in that role is sweet [...]

She has a neat slideshow up on her site. And I’m going to have to design a new cover for Rusalka.

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 it and took out all the [...]

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 machinery-racket or cost a mint to run. BUT—there was the famous incident of the [...]

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

And we both emerged dry and relatively rested. Only half the course was available because of bridge construction, but it was about enough: I’ve been so tired. But I went with OGS’s husband, Steve, and Steve II, (his best buddy) in another canoe. Steve paddled. I did the bow-bit, for the most part (except one [...]

…in the same vein. What is the absolutely craziest thing you’ve ever done that you survived? Ours was probably undertaking a 4000 gallon pond dig (most of the back yard) with a Mantis tiller. But outside of that—probably deciding in my 6th decade and Jane’s 5th to take up ice skating. Hey, it was safer than [...]

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 low-water period. The Spokane is a white-water river that [...]

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