ur “held” mail was delivered today–in one of those Post Office crates. Lots of junk, as usual, but also quite a bit of cool stuff. I guess lots of cool things accumulate in three weeks worth of mail in December. The cool stuff includes: A check for two pieces of writing that will be appearing…
ell, because I’m sick. Have been sick. For going on 10 days now. It came from the kids, no doubt. Started as the sniffles and then turned into fever and chills halfway through watching The Hobbit. That was about 10 days ago. The fever and chills went away pretty quickly but then the cough started. And…
appy New Year everyone. By the time this post goes online I should be on the road on the final leg of our drive home from our awesome vacation1 and the new year has come, whether we want it to or not. The new year is a time when many people make one or more…
e are spending New Year’s Eve at a hotel off the I-95 corridor in central North Carolina. Tomorrow, we will be home after being away on a terrific vacation for nearly three weeks. I may have mentioned this in an earlier post, but it really stood out today while driving through North Carolina: What is…
hile everyone was napping today after a long day of wandering around historic Savannah, Georgia, I finally got around to catching up with my RSS feed and discovered that the short fiction results had been released for Locus’ All-Century Polls for Short Fiction. I spent some time reviewing these results and was generally both surprised…
laying professional baseball can result in a variety of injuries. I think a groin pull is a fairly common injury for pro baseball players, especially infielders making an extra stretch to grab a ball that would otherwise be just out of reach. Groin pulls can be pretty painful. I should know. I pulled one the…
e left Florida yesterday after spending nearly two weeks there, between Disney World and my in-laws. It was a wonderful trip, the kids had a blast and Kelly and I had a great time too. It was marred only by the fact that I’ve been sick for the last week. It seems to be down…