When in SF, one has to do the SF thing and cross The Bridge. Which seems to mean venturing into a fog, no matter what time of the year, or what time of the day. The top pix shows the … Continue reading
STORMSEEKER Another 5% of first draft … Continue reading
If for some obscure and fun reason you should want to know what was the top song in the USA the day you were born look here. And so on the day that I emerged squalling into a world then … Continue reading
…and all other women. There is one thing I will gladly say about Palin. She is a beautiful woman, especially considering her serial motherhood and her not-so-young age. She is gorgeous. To say that she is not, when viewed close … Continue reading
There are so many mutterings going around about how this present economic dive is going to resemble the Great Depression of the 1930s. I think those who say that kind of thing have not the faintest idea of what the … Continue reading
STORMSEEKER, Book Two of the Random Rain trilogy,first draft: In a word: YAY! … Continue reading
Here’s a true story, just related to me today over a coffee at my kitchen table. The woman chatting to me has recently had a medical problem diagnosed (after an CT scan and ultrasound) as kidney stones, and is due … Continue reading
A few pix of animals from our Yosemite trip, appropriate today because it has just been announced by IUCN that one in every four mammal species in the world is in trouble – and could disappear from the face of … Continue reading
Thank you to all the folk who were ahead of their time – even ahead of some folk who live in our times – and decided to stop the logging and the mountain sheep-herding that would have devastated this place … Continue reading
The pix above is younger daughter holding the cone of a sugar pine in Yosemite. They grow things big there, remember? The white bits you can see on the cone are pieces of resin and they have a glorious smell. … Continue reading