No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Well, I was in Silver Spring, MD during the recent sniper episode and arrived home alive. So did my husband. So did all of our friends. Or...

So what do they have in common? Both have a penchant for wearing military uniforms and growing facial hair. Both are absolute dictators over...

Ahh, for the good old days of the Web. You could stick your E-mail address wherever you wanted to and people would send you E-mail... ; ...

One of my favorite books (well, the first 2/3rds of it, anyway) is the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay . I also liked The Wonder Bo...

Osama bin Laden hasn't been seen publically since last fall, and he wasn't looking too good at the time. Remember, he was only 44 b...

With so much bad news about unlucky girls, I thought I'd share two stories about lucky girls. The first one is 7-year-old Erica Pratt. ...

The Post-Gazette published a lengthy letter I wrote in response to an article on the Philadelphia Convention Center. Here's the letter:...

I am a big believer in fact-checking, particularly in public forums, like Web sites, radio shows, TV shows, newspapers...Heck, even in blogs...

Gee, has it been six weeks already? Time sure flies... ;-> Anyway , between having a rough time with sinuses, moving to a mostly full-ti...

We live on a busy street in a nice suburb of Pittsburgh. We moved here in 1993 because we were looking for an area with an excellent school...

This was Kate Nepveu's fault - she alerted rec.arts.sf.fandom to the Weblog harrump, still crazy , where people were instructed to list ...

I am politically liberal. I used to feel more middle-of the-road, but not so much lately. And that, in theory, should mean that I am in fa...

We all gotta go. I know that. I edit Dead People Server , partially to track "people's status," but also as a reminder - we ...

I find the unilateral actions of our government, particularly under the Bush administration, to be an embarassment. But today's decisio...

I was very saddened to hear about George Alec Effinger's death. While I hadn't been in touch in a while, we'd hung out some at ...

Jim and I help to run science fiction conventions. Last year, we managed the Program division for the Millennium Philcon. So now that we...

I went to a political event tonight, "in honor" of tax day. It was supposed to be something of an environmentalist's nightmar...

I'm still not sure "why blog" when I've been writing Web pages since 1994. But, I thought I'd give it a shot. So, here...