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Earlier this month, Meghan McCain vented about dating during and after the election: Nothing makes me more ill than the idea of some guy bragging to his friends that he was going to go on a date with “John McCain’s daughter.� (Unfortunately this has happened more times than I would like to cou...

I’ve been smoke-free for a week. Victory is mine, and so on. It was actually not that hard what with this nicotine patch. My only worry is when the time comes to quit the nicotine patch. THEN things might get a little hairy....

more animals This was pretty much the scene at my house the other day. Sure, it will be a cold day in hell when you see Sophie and Lucie together like that (although we are making strides in acclimating!) but if they could have looked at me like that, they would have. Blargh on [...]...

gripe #1: damn 100km/h melbourne winds. right nearly took my eye out.  i’m now confined to specs for the next couple of days. oww for scratched corneas. gripe #2: i gave my boys a shelling today. strolling into class fifteen minutes late, then jabbering away in mandarin just. won’t. d...

I have no DSL. So, as if life wasn't hard enough, I have to take frequent trips to the Internet cafe outside our subdivision to submit my work. I've made 3 trips in the last 24 hours so far. I feel like stabbing people violently....

It’s the recession, yeah, but we were broke before it was cool to be broke. (Schoolteachers HOLLA.) (Journalists DOUBLE HOLLA.) (Single-income families SHOUT IT OUT LOUD.) So when I splurge, I gotta have math skills. Which I did, this weekend. Threw caution to the wind and busted out two twent...

Okay, now the world feels small. For the first time, I know someone in all the fiction categories of the Nebula nominees. And not just like encountered on Facebook once (though there is that...) -- but was roommates at the World Fantasy Convention with (Dave Schwartz), wrote a story with (Jeff Ford)...

Well, probably not, but today it’s all blues skies and fresh air outdoors, and my lily has the first of its flowers in full bloom: That’s springy enough for me. Or it will be until the next dismal overcast Monday rolls round, when I will curse the Earth’s axial tilt and scowl at th...

  Rick is recovering nicely.  Thank you for all the well wishes.   He's a very good, appreciative patient.  The picture above has nothing to do with this post.  We are going to talk about killer abs.  And I don't have a picture of them that I can sha...