I was once again very fortunate that The Citadel helped to provide some of the funds necessary for me to travel to Europe to complete my research this summer (for previous trips, see 2013 and 2011). What follows is an account of this year’s adventure, written in the form of …
Last week, on 23 May 2014, we lost Sydney the Wondermutt. She was 13. She was, unto the end, not just a good dog, but a loyal member of our family. Many of you know already the story of Syd, but I want to write it down anyway. I want …
The end is nigh. No, not TEOTWAWKI. The end of my sabbatical. The fact that it’s ending is nothing I can really complain about, of course. Few jobs in this world will give you any paid leave at all to go do the sorts of things that make you happy; …
The recent happy book news has served as a reminder to me about how out-of-date my website has become. I’d not undertaken much coding work here in a long time. So over the next few days I’ll be fiddling with things a bit. I don’t plan on this being a …
It was Ernest Hemingway who supposedly came up with the challenge of writing a six-word short story. They’re hard to do, but fun. So here’s a six-word story for today: I’m publishing a series with Tor.
