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Dear anyone who is grieving
Back when I was in the hospital in May, the doctor there didn’t like that I was having trouble breathing and that my oxygen was so low. Well, one of the, like, four doctors I saw in five or six days. I kept trying to explain “asthma” and “lungs filled with fluid thanks to sepsis”
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Plans are overrated
For as much as I tried to plan out an amazing, magical, once-in-a-lifetime trip to Scotland…. man. Life be lifin’, y’all. I was not expecting to be felled by Covid for a good portion of it, and then struggling to recover for pretty much the entire rest of it! So now I’m in the final
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Revisiting LOST
Dear Timmy Sean; Remember that show we really loved (until we didn’t, but then we hate-watched it until the end), LOST? On, I think it’s the Mary Sue website, someone has been watching it and talking about it, as part of a 20-year looking-back exercise, and that got me thinking about it. So I decided
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Definitely the strangest WorldCon I’ve ever been to
Writing that title got me thinking… how many WorldCons *have* I been to? Mom, did you go to St. LouisCon in 1969? That would mean I was at that one, technically, haha. I probably went to NoreasCon 1 (1971). I know I went to TorCon II (73) and DisCon II (74). Then MidAmeriCon (76), SunCon
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I finally caught The Co-co! The ‘Rona! The Sars and Stars! Whatever the kids are calling it these days.
Honestly I’m a little surprised it took me four years. I guess there’s something to be said for being a feral, stay-at-home artist who never goes anywhere or sees anyone. OK, so, first, it sucks. I mean, it suuuuuuuucks. But. I’m vaccinated and since I thought I was just having one of my usual tenacious
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People-watching on the ship
People-watching on this cruise is wild. There are the people who clearly cruise a lot. There are the people who look out of place. There are the people who never stop jogging around the deck. There are the people who talk loudly about all the previous adventures they’ve had, as if they want everyone to





