When we bought land in New Mexico, we knew we had about a year to build our house–which meant we had about a year to experience as much of Colorado as we could. On our list: the fourteener. Colorado boasts nearly 60 mountains that reach 14,000 feet or more. We chose Mt. Evans, originally named […]
Do people still use the expression “salt mines” to describe tedious work? I’m always on the hunt for interesting idioms, and spending time with The General (age 90+) has enabled me to discover some choice archaic phrases, like “brown study,” a melancholy reverie. But we’re not talking about brown today; we’re talking about pink. My […]
This past year has rushed by like a Japanese bullet train, and my blog has been a Dickensian orphan: neglected, unloved, and underfed. So I’m belatedly creating posts about hiking adventures, conferences, and reading highlights in 2018. Bear with me, since there will be no attempt at chronology. My last post was about bobcats, and […]
I’ve been obsessed with foxes lately, but this fearless bobcat (captured on my security feed) strutted right past me on Sunday afternoon, and now I’m whipsawing between worry and delight. Worry, because my kitty Mithril wants to sneak out the back door every chance he gets. Delight, because hey, we have a neighborhood bobcat. As […]
Every year at Halloween, Dulcinea dresses up for our cameras, and this year her pumpkin-themed photo shoot took place in the Bear Canyon Arroyo, near our new home. The arroyo is a wilderness cutting through the center of the city, and the coyotes, the foxes, and the mountain lions use the broad riverbed to make […]
So, you may have noticed that I’ve been missing in action for some time. My excuse is that we’ve moved to New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, where we’ve built a house on the edge of a great arroyo. We still haven’t unpacked all the boxes we’ve brought from Colorado, and I don’t have the […]
The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) is both my favorite scholarly conference and my favorite SF/F convention, and I was very glad to make it to Orlando last week to meet up with friends, hear authors read, and learn something new. My late friend Michael Levy had been the President of […]
Let’s look back at 2017 and celebrate some of our accomplishments (including the fact that we somehow made it through the year). 2017 started out with the Women’s March, and I’m not going to lie: it was absolutely thrilling to knit a bunch of pink hats and carry signs and march in support of women. […]
