
The Habit of No
I had a co-worker some time ago, relatively young and new to the workforce, who, over the time we worked in the same company, got the No habit bad. There… Read more The Habit of No →
I had a co-worker some time ago, relatively young and new to the workforce, who, over the time we worked in the same company, got the No habit bad. There… Read more The Habit of No →
I think I was 14 when I read Robert Heinlein’s Beyond This Horizon. One of the world-building details was that in this society many people went armed (almost all of… Read more A Civil Society →
I was once chased around my parents’ kitchen by a friend of my father’s. But I’ll come back to that. One of my favorite things to do when I was… Read more Notice, Class, How Angela Circles… →
The _ key on my laptop is not working. This has been a trying year. A year ago in November there was the election, about which, perhaps, the less spoken,… Read more Choosing to be Merry, _ammit →
A few years ago I got to be a presenter at the Nebulas. Ask any writer of SF and they will tell you that it is generally better to be… Read more Grace in the Face Of →
Two years ago, at 19, my daughter deleted her social media accounts. This is a kid who had lived on Facebook and Snapchat and all the rest, and then… poof, not… Read more Life Lived Out Loud. Very Loud. →
I have two daughters, and one is an actress Because of this, she and her sweetie have worked at the Great Dickens Fair in San Francisco for… five? No, six years. First… Read more The Milestone I Didn’t See Coming →
Since my teens (possibly even before that, but the facts get lost in the gauze of time) I have occasionally fallen over. Often publicly. The first time I remember was… Read more Tilt! →