Category: Personal

I am officially moved into the new house.  If you’re looking to update my address in your books, send me an email and I’ll get the new numbers to you. I am exhausted from ripping up carpet and moving heavy furniture and scrubbing tubs and sinks and all varieties of surfaces, but it is so…

So there are apparently only two bus shuttles on Thursday going from the Albany airport to the World Fantasy convention, one at noon and one at six p.m. My flight comes in at 12:42, so apparently I am supposed to wait in the airport for five hours until the second bus arrives. So if there…

I am moving into the gingerbread house (witch not included) and don’t have internet hooked up again yet–soon, though, so if I’m behind in answering an e-mail, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.  It is raining here, and fall leaves are sticking to my shoes.  I kind of like this, but…

I was wondering if anyone out there has a copy of this past Sunday’s Washington Post Book World.  I searched high and low in my neighborhood to get a copy, but haven’t found anywhere that carries it around here.  The price one pays for living the remote wilds of Ohio.  I’m making a little scrapbook…

The house passed its inspection with mostly flying colors today. There are some little things we’ll have to do, but mostly just routine maintenance stuff that had gone undone as the house had been empty for a good part of the past year. So it looks like I’m a homeowner for sure now. It looks…

As of today my online journal Meditations in an Emergency is five years old.  Wow, how time really does fly, as they say.  One of the things I like about journals is looking back once enough time has passed to trace the outlines of where I’ve been and where I’m going.  Five years ago I…