Sorry, couldn’t resist taking a picture of our cat, taking a nap after a night of editing. She seems well adapted to the literary life.

No doubt she’s dreaming of captaining a starship searching for planets strange and populated with mice capering in catnip forests.

So I arrived late to the campus cafeteria (a military campus, no less!) for breakfast–I had the credits on my card, but the card-swipe lady had closed her station, and the staff were sitting in loose clusters taking their breakfast. I suppose I was looking a little miserable, because one of the …

Something made me look at the calendar and then there was a small epiphany, kind of like one small firecracker going off.

I realized that, today, I’ve been blogging for 10 years!

Wow, 10 years. This was even before 9/11, which in some ways seems like almost yesterday. But in other ways, like when …