We're having a cold spell in Arkansas -- frost on the grass at the dog park today, high of 33 tomorrow. Shamus likes the cold. It does n...

As always, this is what I'm reading NOT for review columns. Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future KS Robinson writes these m...

It is foggy, damp, and cold here. I took the dog to the park at dawn and since no one was there I could let him off the leash, his favorite ...

It's been very cold here lately -- sleet and freezing roads yesterday, and today sunny but 22 degrees when I took the dog to the park at...

EDITED TO CORRECT MY ERRORS: I'm sure most of us have heard about the TA in Oklahoma who gave an Evangelical student a bad grade on he...

I now live, as many of you know, in the nearest thing to a socialist city you're going to find in Arkansas. Our governor and legislature...

Thanksgiving went well, though I had to open the windows because so much cooking made the house too hot. Also, Dr Skull got stove up from th...

I took the dog on a frosty walk before sunrise and since then have been involved in preparations for dinner, even though in theory I have ve...

I sent off the revision of the third Velocity novel (titled Down the Core) yesterday and so today I am at loose ends. I have reviews to writ...

Stella Hayward, The Good Boy On her 30th birthday, a woman is granted a wish by her magical grandmother. This is a family tradition -- every...

 Two deer were grazing out behind my house this morning: There were also two squirrels in that tree. Shamus was in a puppy quandary -- which...

Getting a review copy of Martha Wells' new book in literal seconds made me think about the world previous to the internet, when probably...

I scored a review copy of Martha Wells' new Murderbot book, Platform Decay. WOOOO! That's my Friday night sorted.

Support my artist son! Support an independent artist! Support a trans artist! Beautiful and disturbing horror comic about a pregnant trans m...

This morning I was remembering a period of about nine or ten months in my 20s when, as a new feminist, I was determined to stop being "...