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Fun Facts 76-100!
A few posts ago, I challenged myself to post 100 facts I found interesting, to celebrate the 100th post of my blog. It was rather hard to do this all for one blog post, so I stretched them across a...
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One year, 125 posts, and beyond
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of this blog, which I started as a way to improve my writing, to document things that interest me, and to put myself out there. As of this, my 125th (!) post, I...
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Today I sold my first story
Today I sold my first fiction story. It’s hard to express my thoughts and feelings. I will keep working hard, and I will eventually sell more, but today I am elated. Below are some musings and...
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Happy 17th Anniversary, Vironevaeh!
Tomorrow is April 15th, 17 years since I did a project about a city named Vironevaeh, chock full of V’s and vowels, because why not? Somehow it never went away, and seventeen years later, it’s hard to...
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A Weekend at Ravencon
This weekend I went to my first science fiction convention, Ravencon in Richmond, and what a weekend it was. The weekend started with a bang when our hotel had a fire alarm during a tornado warning....
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Heroes, Villains, Anti-Heroes, and Sadsacks
Heroes and villains populate our fiction and our imaginations: Batman and the joker, cops and robbers, the Allies and the Nazis. Not every central character fits the standard hero or the standard...
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Kitties at the shelter
I volunteer at the SPCA. Once a week, I go socialize the adult cats. Just in our small community, there must be over 100 cats at our shelter. I appreciate my own cats more after volunteering. The...
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Vironevaeh: 19 years of love
Like so many of us sci-fi-ers, I grew up on science fiction television. I remember watching Star Trek Next Generation in a high chair, and later I watched Babylon 5 and Voyager. I feared the space...
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Gudrun’s Postcards: A Little Girl’s Life and Death in a Bygone Era
In 1915, my great aunt Gudrun died of type 1 diabetes at the age of ten or eleven. It was one of those family health tidbits to mention to the doctor and little more. Insulin injections weren’t...
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Happy 2020! This time last year, my job was so terrible I was losing vision in one eye from the stress. Now I have a new job, and the creative juices have been flowering (plus I can see again). I hope...
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