On leave
My company doesn't have sabbaticals per se any more, but they do allow people to take extended unpaid leave, with...
Author Archive
Introducing the Hansons
Last month, I posted about the Olsons—my grandmother's mother and aunts and uncles, at least twelve of them in all....
House dreams
I woke up and wondered why it had never occurred to me before that my bedroom has a largish hole...
“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...
Editorial dreams
I don't think I've had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I'm...
SH Flashback: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson
A new entry in my almost-weekly-again Strange Horizons retrospective: “The Red Bride,” by Samantha Henderson A bedtime story told to...
Yay, PG&E!
Yay PG&E customer service! Got home tonight, in a pretty good mood for the first time in a while, and...
Hugo-nominee gender update
I just followed a link to Kalimac's 2015 LiveJournal post showing author gender for Hugo-nominated fiction. I compared it with...
Introducing the Olsons, or the Olsens
About a year ago, I started going through the then-newly-digitized photos of my grandmother Helen's family. And I got a...
SH Flashback: “Talisman,” by Tracina Jackson-Adams
A new entry in my about-to-be-weekly-again Strange Horizons retrospective: “Talisman,” by Tracina Jackson-Adams A story about touch-hunger, and violence, and...
FBI file, continued
It's always a little disconcerting to get an envelope from the FBI. But in this case, it was another set...
Why I dislike Markdown
For those unfamiliar with it: Markdown is “a text-to-HTML conversion tool”—or, to put it another way, a simplified way to...