Author Archives: dichroic

1. If I’ve climbed 20 flights of stairs over the course of today (a max of 11 at one go) does that adequately compensate for skipping my workout this morning? 2. Does anyone else hear the news from Iraq and … Continue reading →

I keep wanting to begin this entry, “Well, crap!” But it seems out of place, and maybe a little disrespectful. Rudder is the only person I know to have reached the age of 40 with four grandparents still alive. He … Continue reading →

Fortunately it seems to be mostly better now. Last week we had the warm temperatures and sunny skies that followed us home from England, and then grey moist Saturday with its breath of Spring. The daffodils were out, dancing in … Continue reading →

It looks like a bunch of books by Charles Williams, about whom I’d been mildly curious, as well as several Doctor Doolittle books include some I haven’t read, are now available online. The downside, due to extended US copyright laws, … Continue reading →

I had a small revelation yesterday. I’d managed to think up a plot (all by myself!) that I think is complicated enough to support a children’s book. I could hear the narrator’s voice (or possibly one of two narrators, a … Continue reading →

I have a considerable amount of credit at Amazon UK, some left over from Christmas and some from my birthday, and would really appreciate suggestions on ways to spend it. As far as important SFF books of the past year … Continue reading →

I’ve just written an account of our trip, at enough length that I’m not going to repost it here. You can read it here, instead. I haven’t decided where to put it, but I need to write another entry soon … Continue reading →

Yes, the weekend did look up from there. We got to London Thursday night, and the only problem from there on was trying to cram 3.5 days of sightseeing into 2.5 days. Of course, being us, if we’d had the … Continue reading →