I went grocery shopping at the Old People Hour early this morning. It occurred to me that I was wearing the weirdest outfit I've ever worn out of the house, even counting costumes, which at least are all of a theme. But today's look: tank top, shorts, sandals, sunhat, huge serious-looking assassin mask (spouse ordered very early on and got what ( Read more... )

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Three posts in a row today from parents coping while trying to cope with work and upset schedules, two frustrated, one doing well. This on top of a phone call to a niece, another call from a friend who is a concerned grandma looking for solutions, and an email exchange ( Read more... )

By which I mean people who work on a project over most of their lives. Not writing the same thing over and over, but following characters or a world across decades. A writer famous in Thailand, but whose work I never was able to find in English, recently died, so his long project is over.

I recently finished a very dense, but fascinating book on ( Read more... )

This will be boring because we all are living it, but I'm hoping that this period will become history soon enough that it will stick out in my mind later on ( Read more... )

Write Hive is a writers' organization a writer friend belongs to. She contacted me nearly a year ago about this con, which they were putting together to be a virtual con, so that anyone with access to a computer could attend ( Read more... )

When I walk the dogs, and glimpse people in full masks and goggles, there is a split second of worry. Maybe I've seen too much TV with terrorists and kidnappers, etc, dressed like that ( Read more... )

Tasks have piled up so I haven't been on line as much, but I wanted to point out today's Decameron story, which is by
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Caroline Stevermer’s A College of Magics and A Scholar of Magics are my favorite magic school fantasies, bar none, so when I got a chance to read an ARC, I grabbed it.

And as always, Stevermer did not disappoint. The Glass Magician is set in an alternate Gilded Age version of New York City, where Miss Thalia Cutler is a professional stage magician ( Read more... )

I shuddered to contemplate a world in which Aunt Cythera was an actual mad scientist.

Today's Decameron story is a bit of SF by Marissa Lingen. If this line hooks you the way it hooks me, you might enjoy the story as much as I did over my morning tea (dropped on my doorstep by another friend the other day, thanks LBT ( Read more... )