On the first of January I celebrated my fortieth year as an author, the period in which I have supported myself solely on writing and related professions. I would have mentioned this on the day, but you know what?  I forgot. It was early on January 1, forty years ago, that I got a phone […]

It’s New Year’s Eve, which is a chance to celebrate the old as well as ring in the new. To that end, let’s party like it’s 1973! (Just watch the video for now, I’ll tell you about it later.) This is two examples of Seventies excess mashed together.  The tune is “Nutbush City Limits” by […]

It’s the first big winter storm in a number of years, and the world is covered with a layer of ice buried under several inches of snow.  It won’t really get above freezing for over a week, so we’re just going to have to get used to involuntary acts of skating. I hate driving under […]

Happy Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday!   Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.