Progress is Progress
Not much up my sleeve today, except that I’ve begun revisions on Boneshaker. As part of these revisions, I’m adding a set of bookends [prologue/epilogue] by way of rounding things out; and today I took some time to sit down and try to come up with a reasonable prologue.
Tomorrow I’ll barrel forward and [...]
Backstage before the debate in Oxford, Mississippi
Candid pictures taken by David Katz, road team worker from Obama for America. Full photoset here, or click the photo below.
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Today, I made the rounds with Becky and Dan; we went to the Space Needle (in accordance with city-wide visitor mandate), spent all afternoon shopping in the University District, went to Archie McPhees, and then hit up Bad Albert’s for supper. Thereafter, my sister and her husband returned to their hotel in order to [...]
Tour Guiding
My sister and her husband have arrived safely, met Ellen, petted kitties, visited Lakeview Cemetery, watched the debate, snarfed up some Thai food, and returned to their hotel for the evening. Tomorrow, there will be further shenanigans, including — but not limited to — such diverse elements as shopping, sightseeing, and trawling for interesting [...]
Bracing Against the Season
I seem to be going into hibernating mode, which isn’t to say that I’m sleeping all the time — but some weird mammalian hind-brain impulse is prompting me to indulge in obsessive nesting behavior, as if I’m shoring up my life against the dark, cold months to come.
I swapped out all the warm-weather [...]