Oh I wish it would rain... Feeling gloomy in the sun is no good. Poppets can be awfully good company on days like this. I'm going to the...

Orion has begun his math homework. He has two pages. I promised a game of catch when he's done, so I'm going to stop fiddling wit...

I like reading it, every few years, building upon the impressions and memories I've collected from previous readings. Still, sometimes ...

Working, swimming, working more, cleaning, working. (On that---working again with Larry Niven--yay! We've resumed work on the Strange s...

Not to worry. We are here. We are moving fast , making things and shipping them, figuring things out, rediscovering the beauty of desert n...

Once I met a girl named Mary H., who lived in Atlanta. What I remember most about Mary is that she liked cinnamon in her coffee (before we...

I could write, or I could go for a walk with Aubrey, on possibly the last truly brisk day of spring... So, here we go, leaving you with phot...

This was a truly warm day, a first portent of what lies ahead. Yesterday we hid eggs, cooked, ate way too much chocolate. There were ki...

Thursday: I'm sitting by the pool as I write this. The palm trees sway and the breezes caress and whisper. The sun sparkles on th...

Epiphanies are like assholes, everybody has one and everyone thinks his is special. There's one for the bathroom mirror, before whic...

We had some real wind yesterday. Up to 79 mph. So far it looks like no human casualties but some evacuations, lots of mess and some damag...

This morning Orion and I were very nearly late for school. I didn't hear my alarm, because it's my phone, which was forgotten in...

Most of the day since morning was spent preparing for our sale this weekend. I'll admit we got a little distracted, looking at Poppets ...

Spring will never be my favorite season. It's way too far the opposite of my favorite, which is autumn. Nevertheless, spring holds so...

Yesterday was extraordinarily warm, even for Palm Springs. Great timing, because we celebrated Orion's 7 th with lots of water. Cold...

As you know, I've been reading about rats. Lots about rats. More than I ever thought I might. This is what happens when one starts to r...

I caught Nosferatu on A & E, just lucky timing, as it began. There are some truly beautiful scenes, like vintage postcards, in that fi...

So now it's Saturday night and I begin to believe I'm becoming the hermit I always thought I would be. It's late and I'm di...

I'm taking this week to catch up on things I owe people. We missed some orders, yikes, for various reasons that can all be reduced to o...

I emailed Officer Tedd Nickerson via Pet Harbor, who replied that our little friend is doing better today. I haven't decided exactly wh...