Occasionally, when I meet people outside of conventions, AKA, in real life, and they find out I’m a writer, they ask what kind of stuff I write. I always say, “I write science fiction.” That either interests them or I get a wave off, since they don’t read that kind of stuff. That’s normally okay… Continue reading A Genre Writer
Things That Work: My Jeep Wrangler at 300,000 Miles
I was at work, so my boy Thomas and my wife Mary Ann picked out my new car, a 97 dark green Jeep Wrangler. All I had to do was drive it off the lot. For some reason this, more than any other vehicle, felt like my car — not a hand-me-down, nor a family… Continue reading Things That Work: My Jeep Wrangler at 300,000 Miles
Revisiting TV
For a number of years now, I’ve been collecting videos. This is hardly unusual, most people do. Over time, however, I had collected nearly three terabytes of movies, tv shows, and home movies, nicely converted and organized as an iTunes library. As the library grew, my media database grew out of a single hard drive,… Continue reading Revisiting TV