No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Yes, Boskone happened in Boston for the first time since 1987. There were either one or two fire alarms, but the hotel didn't take them...

I've been to see The Two Towers four times (so far). It's a glorious movie, but in order to see the movie, you have to see way too...

I always remember where I was when I hear really awful news. I was watching TV a January night in the '60s when the news broke in with a...

I've been sick since getting home. The cold I picked up over Christmas seems to have slid into being the flu (aches, exhaustion), so I ...

We had a very happy holiday, enjoyed the east coast snowstorm since it hit after we were at my parents, and managed to get home in the New Y...

I don't post blogs all that often, and just spent about 30 minutes writing about a wonderful new book called When You Ride Alone, You Ri...

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...