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Good news from Pew Research Center‘s survey (run from April 26 to May 22 among 2,277 adults, margin of error = +/-…
Read moreGood news from Pew Research Center‘s survey (run from April 26 to May 22 among 2,277 adults, margin of error = +/-…
Read moreOne of the gifts we got for our anniversary was a bottle of 40 year-old port: We haven’t cracked it yet, but…
Read moreWell, it sounds as though someone is fucking something up somewhere with Pixar’s first girl-lead movie, Brave. According to Wikipedia, Brenda Chapman…
Read moreOh, I want to see this right now. Now. Mist, menhirs, sword and ponies, monsters in the forest, a wee girl with…
Read moreLast year, I grew a bunch of herbs in pots on the back deck. I called them the perbs (as opposed to…
Read moreKelley and me, 1989 Today is the 23rd anniversary of the day I met Kelley. I told the story in my multi-media…
Read more1993 Last night, in a dramatic floor vote that ended at 10:30 pm, the New York Senate voted 33/29 for same-sex marriage….
Read moreOver at Sterling Editing we have our usual roundup of links of interest to emerging writers. I was struck by the Behler…
Read moreIt’s a grey day here, a mizzle of drizzle. But the garden is lush. Next time the sun comes out, I’ll take…
Read moreHild is progressing nicely. The first draft started at 976 pages. About 40% of the way through the rewrite I’d lost 54…
Read moreIn case you haven’t heard, NPR is soliciting votes for the 100 best F/SF novels of all time. This would be a…
Read moreNow this is what I’d like to do with my estate–if, y’know, I had one. From the New York Times, the announcement…
Read moreKelley has started her forty-one days of writing for the Clarion West Write-a-Thon. Her first piece is up, prompted by the phrase,…
Read moreYesterday the U.N. Human Rights Council voted in favor of a declaration, put forward by South Africa, that expressed “grave concern at…
Read moreHere’s a downpayment on the naked writing that will begin on Sunday in support of Kelley’s Clarion West Write-a-Thon. The moon is…
Read moreGuess what I’ll be doing for the next few days? It’s a present from a friend who understands the mind-melting frustration of…
Read moreYesterday I invented a new word, glottering–except, it turns out, it was invented long ago. Tuh. ‘The stork glottereth, this is a…
Read moreA few days ago, a teacher (or librarian?) told me she’d like to be able to recommend some science fiction for her…
Read moreI’m now just past halfway through my first-pass rewrite of Hild. I’ve already lost more than fifty pages. If you recall the…
Read moreYou’ve probably figured out by now that I’m ill with something other than MS. I have a variety of doctors (internist, rheumatologist,…
Read moreHolly Wade Matter recently posted these photos of me and Kelley, from 1997, on Facebook. Aargh!! All I can say is: our…
Read moreKelley has an essay up at @U2 about her recent experience at a show here in Seattle. She’s been inundated with email…
Read moreThree interesting posts this weeks about feminist sf. I count all three women as my friends. I’m going to link and cut-and-paste…
Read moreLarge chunks of the last couple of days have been the kind of days when I’d rather be somewhere else (health stuff;…
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