The Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, New Mexico kicked off their month long author’s festival (Visual Storytelling) with a talk by me on why your favorite book is so different from its movie.
I'm participating at the Jack Williamson Memorial Lectureship this Thursday and Friday. The linked video is a reading recorded for them to use over the course of the conference. I thought my patrons should have a crack at it too. If you're interested in the panels, talks, and other readings, here is a link to the 2021-04-20 23:30:30 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re reading this, you know who I am, and what I and my family can do that most people cannot.
My dad was the first, nearly thirty years ago, trapped in a room with a raging alcoholic, about to be beaten yet again, when, suddenly, he wasn’t in that room. He was several blocks away in the town’s p...
2021-03-26 21:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Means slipper in Italian. This version I make only has 4 ingredients (bread flour, yeast, water, kosher salt.) Apparently the original version has olive oil as well. It is a "high-hydration" dough, which means it is wet as a swamp, but I think that actually makes it easier to make.
I make sandwich-sized rolls (like abov...
2021-02-23 00:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Three different nations have spacecraft visiting the red planet this month.
Congratulations to the United Arab Emirates, whose spacecraft Hope entered Mars orbit on February 9. Hope will study the dust storms and other Martian weather affect the speed at which Martian air leaks into outer space.
One day late...
2021-02-19 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I bought this parka after freezing my ass off in January, in Canada, during the shooting of the IMPULSE pilot. Not only was it -13 degrees Celsius (8 degrees F,) we were three miles north of Lake Erie and twelve miles southwest of Lake Ontario. The humidity this adds...well, let's just say Jack Frost isn't nipping at your nos...
2021-02-16 17:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
