book covers
Guess What I Got in the Mail Today?
This is my prize for winning Scalzi’s LOLCreation contest. Just showed up today. In case you can’t read the inscription, it says: “To Steve, who does not do logic wrong.”
politics
Why Mixing Religion and Government is Bad
Sudan doesn’t like your teddy bears. Britain’s foreign secretary said he was “very concerned” about the case of a UK teacher who was in court Thursday, facing charges of offending religion by allowing a teddy bear to be named “Mohammed.” Not only is is an appalling case of “let’s persecute Read more…
pet pictures
Bonus Kitty
This homeless waif accosted us while we were unloading groceries a couple of weeks ago, rubbing our legs and mewing incessantly. Since there’re coyotes in the neighborhood (I had seen two crossing the street earlier that evening) we took the creature in and placed her on the sun porch, segregated Read more…
real life
10 Things I learned this Thanksgiving
When you put 2 leaves in our dining-room table it doesn’t fit in a 10×11 dining room. The standard 8 pc. place setting that most of us get for a weeding gift will be inadequate once you start hosting the extended family for holidays, it is good to have a Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
When book covers do it right
Working on Apotheosis (going well, thank you for asking) I’ve found myself digging in my old notes for Hostile Takeover. And I found a little sketch I made of the character Flower, when I was figuring out what the Volerans looked like. Now I’m not a very good artist (I Read more…
pet pictures
Insert the obvious pun here
And now presenting cats, and a bag.Please make up your own joke.
pet pictures
Zoë
Yes, our cute little kitten has a name now, Zoë. Here are two obligatory kitten pictures.
Apotheosis Trilogy
Chugging along. . .
I finally feel as if the Hostile Takeover sequel is moving forward reasonably well. This should make Sheila at DAW happy, she’s been waiting for it for an inordinately long time. Wolfbreed aside, I had stalled on the project because I hadn’t decided who the main characters were. I had Read more…
real life
Toads Go Boom. . .
Ok, this BBC Story is scary and funny at the same time. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The toads’ entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have Read more…