England Swings SF, Judith Merril, and the New Wave
I'm finally reading Judith Merril's groundbreaking 1968 anthology England Swings SF. Here are some thoughts. i probably ought to...
Repeated questions in interviews
I recently remembered something that happened when I was being interviewed for my current job, back in 2004: I think...
Silence, agreement, and conflict-aversion
This is a pattern in my life: Someone tells me something. I don't agree with what they said, but I...
Anxiety and Lexapro
Here's the short version: I've been having a hard time with anxiety for a long time. A previous attempt at...
Crowd-dodging: the video game
I came up with an idea for a video game 30 years ago: it would be a first-person-viewpoint 3D graphics...
Blogiversary
My first blog post was on September 14, 2001, so yesterday marked fifteen years of my blog. Happy birthday, blog!...
Some time alone
It occurred to me yesterday morning that I'm used to spending several hours a day alone (not every day, but...
Boston friends
A couple of the friends I'm seeing this visit I've known since 1983; over two-thirds of my life. Some of...
Sleepy
Last night, I got tired, went to bed early (for me), and fell asleep so suddenly I neglected to put...
Revising a song: “Here I Am, Lord”
I'm not a Christian, but I really like some Christian songs. There's one such song that I quite like most...
A history of online sf prozines, 1985-2010
In October of 2010, I decided to write a history on online sf magazines, with a focus on prozines. I...
Return to Boston
A substantial number of my friends live in and near Boston; I realized some years back that it didn't really...