My high-school (and college) friend Jed Bell and his partner Wickie Stamps have made a short (15-minute) film called Foucault...
A modern Italian priest, Don Silvio Mantelli, has asked the Pope to name a 19th-century Italian priest, Saint Giovanni Bosco,...
This weekend is Swarthmore's alumni weekend. I won't be there, sadly; not a Big Reunion Year for me, and I'm...
Yup, the vacation's over. I'm back at work. Got quite a bit done on various projects in the last four...
Most of my Websurfing these days consists of searching for something relevant to a story submission and finding something interesting...
Reading Heather's and Tim's WisCon reports reminds me of a few items I neglected to mention: By the time I...
Before this past weekend, I'd been on four airplane flights (LA and back, SLC and back) since Sept. 11. For...
While looking something up for a story edit, I came across the "String Bag and Octopus Guide to Parenthood," which...
My new titanium PowerBook G4 arrived this morning! Spent much of the day copying files over from old PowerBook, setting...
According to the "Which storybook character are you?" quiz, I'm either Harry Potter or The Little Prince, depending on whether...
Back home from WisCon. WisCon good. WisCon fun. Met many new people. Am exhausted. For those worried about the fact...
Just stopping by for a minute. Been off email for something like 60 hours—left home Thursday morning, didn't get a...