A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly My rating: 4 of 5 stars Historical fiction isn’t my favorite genre, but I’m much more willing to read it when it’s mixed with mystery. I’ve read some of Hambly’s work before…
Three Good Things!
The last time I responded to a prompt from
Airset for iPhone!
I’m so excited! We (our family) have been using Airset as our “groupware” for the past few years – a way to coordinate our calendar and contacts easily. Our criteria included something that would be available wherever we happened to…
I’m Feeling Better!
(I think I’ve already used “Not Dead Yet” as a title, and I really don’t like to be too repetitive.) I haven’t been posting much, and it isn’t really because I haven’t had anything at all to say. In fact,…
Skribit is a Go!
If you’ve visited here once or twice, you might have noticed that little thingie over there in the left-hand bar that asks, “What should I write about?” There’s a link to Skribit, where you can leave suggestions about the types…
Great Interview With Local Musician Gary Motley
Listen to it on Sam’s site, and/or read the resulting article, The Facets of Jazz Through Gary Motley.
Oh, he was obviously such a terrorist!
Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border Obviously, science fiction writers are scary people. And his reason for being in Nebraska in the first place (helping a friend move) was highly questionable, so it…
I still have a hymen (or “vaginal corona”) ? And I thought I just had the box it came in!
Swedish group renames hymen ‘vaginal corona’ …(T)he term hymen is rooted in the Greek word for membrane. Rather than a fragile membrane that breaks, however, the hymen is actually multiple folds of mucous membrane. The vaginal corona is a permanent…
“Go ahead, America. You don’t need us.”
“Watch all the topsoil go down the Mississippi. Transport your children in baskets on top of your SUV deathmobiles. Keep playing with your cute and cuddly pal, the atom. Press your nose against the TV screen for even more educational…
Why make an exception for rape and incest?
I always look forward to Dr. Marty Klein’s Sexual Intelligence newsletters, so I was tickled to see one in my inbox today. But one of the headlines took me by surprise: End Rape & Incest Exceptions to Stupak Abortion Ban.…