Category: Life
At Christmas I felt … the sting of death!
Back in the 1980s I read a mystery, A Taste for Honey by HF Heard. It’s the first of three about “Mr. Mycroft,” an elderly, brilliant retiree turned beekeeper living …
Adults Remembering to Play= Adorable Supers EVERYWHERE, and some of the kids’ books we currently love
āWhat if he wonāt like it? You donāt want to pressure him, you need to make sure you are supporting what HE likes, not what YOU like,ā my husband said …
The game is done, I’ve won, I’ve won!
Which is to say that as of 3 AM Monday morning, my book Alien Visitors is finished. I still have to submit the manuscript (McFarland has to set something up …
Greg, My Nerd-Dad
This is a story about a person who never gave up on me, and I am a better person because of him.
It was the sixth gradeā¦ 2000? I believe? Iāve gotten to that point in my life where Greg would tell me you stop caring or counting, the years just happen. My school handed out flyers for after school clubs and I was determined to find āthe one.ā I had just started drawing, but my sixth grade brain told me that I was excelling, I was the best, and when I saw Cartooning Club, my little ego went: ābingo.ā The classroom the club was held in was in the basement of the school, the woodshop room. Directly to my left, as I walked in the door, I heard: āWelcome.ā There was Greg.
Adventures in the 700 Section
From about age 12 to 15, almost all of my pop culture itches were scratched at the Torrance Public Library. Where Greg Hatcher steeped himself in genre fiction, I was all about the nonfiction; the people, the history, the methods. We were both trying to escape, but while Greg was escaping into fictional worlds, I was trying to escape into a different real world, become a different person, and I knew that the tools to do that would be found almost entirely in the 700 section.
Wow. Freedom is exhausting
I became fully vaccinated roughly two weeks ago. It’s been surprisingly overwhelming. Good, but overwhelming. The first few days of freedom, I got my haircut (I no longer feel the …