It’s been a busy weekend, starting with sending Brigid and Nick back off to Michigan after retrieving them from the airport and ending with a busy Sunday that included taking Lisa (who is recovering from foot surgery) someplace to get her hair washed and done up to the point where she feels kinda human again. […]
Read More ...100 Greatest SF Stories, Written by Females
I’m all for the concept of posting this list of the 100 Greatest SF stories written by women. But what about what was arguably the first SF story ever written? By that, I mean Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was written in 1823, five years before Jules Verne even appeared on the scene. Since I love […]
Read More ...20,000 Steps
Everyone needs a goal, I suppose. The time when Lisa and I started getting more fit coincided with our place of employment offering the Virgin Health Miles program. With that program came a pedometer, and a whole infrastructure for monitoring and rewarding progress. Some of you will know that one of my resolutions this year […]
Read More ...Pausing for a Commercial Break
Sorry for the raw commercialism of this post, but when it rains it pours. Okay, I admit I’m only a little sorry for it. [grin] I’m pleased to have received news that Juliana Rew of Third Flatiron Publishing contacted me yesterday to let me know that she’s interested in using my short story “Schrodinger’s Soldier” […]
Read More ...One Problem, Semi-Solved
The good news is that I knew what the problem was several days ago. The bad news is that I wasn’t able to get it “resolved” until yesterday morning. This means that I spent the whole of my 4-day holiday creating a lot of words that probably won’t even be used. I’m talking about Episode […]
Read More ...My Thoughts on 42
Thursday Lisa and I went to see “42,” which is (as I told Lisa afterwards) probably the worst movie I’ve ever really enjoyed. What this means, I guess, is that the story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier is so powerful on its own that you almost can’t make it uninteresting. But the story’s […]
Read More ...A Couple Brief Reviews
Always nice to see a nice blurb/review of something I wrote, in this case a bit on “The Legend of Parker Clark and Lois Jane”, which this reviewer gave 5-stars. Yay! Lois Tilton at Locus also reviewed “Operation Hercules” in what I’ll take as a favorable light. I’ll repeat it here since I can’t link […]
Read More ...Be a Winner: Enter Ron’s Great Statistics Contest!
At one point of my life I watched a ton of baseball. It’s a nifty game, really. Different than all other games. Its matches play in waves–each inning, each half-inning, really–being it’s own event, the flow of anticipation builds slowly, then releases in unexpected ways. You can watch a baseball game, and if you’re truly […]
Read More ...“The Teammates” Sees Print
It’s hard to settle back into a semi-normal flow of life after a big event like the wedding. But I’m very pleased to note that my story “The Teammates” is now live and available online for free in the new issue of Galaxy’s Edge. This was a fun one to write, and one that I […]
Read More ...A Few Wedding Pictures
We’ve already got about a gazillion pictures floating around Facebook and wherever, but here are a few that folks coming here might be interested in. It was a celtic-themed bash, with the groom and groomsmen (and dads!) in kilts, and the bride in the absolutely most perfect dress ever made (classic, with a touch of […]
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