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One of you once wrote me that “Grief is strange, oddly supple, and rises up in very peculiar waves.” Supple. Merriam Webster provides several definitions to this word that, when applied to grief, are so, so interesting. Supple is...
Daily Drawing 887
Is a disadvantage really a disadvantage? It depends on how you look at it.
After a bit of a break (thirty-six days, to be precise), I’ve finally found the time to continue my chapter-by-chapter journey through The Tale of Genji, and today’s selection is a notable one in several ways. For one thing, it’s one of...
"Riding the Giganotosaur" is a 1999 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a man who has his brain grafted onto a dinosaur's, and then runs free and wild in the unspoiled Cretaceous period. Non-Spoiler Summary In A...
On the morning my friend Kristina died, I listened and re-listened to the last voice mail she left me. I needed to hear her voice, and the mundaneness of her 35 second message was comforting. She was sorry she’d missed my call. She’d...
Sometimes life can bring up choices and I've always found the best thing to do is to trust my gut and let it steer me.
Navigating the Stars of Project Hail Mary Warning: may contain spoilers for Project Hail MaryOne of the joys of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary is how convincingly it blends speculative science fiction with real astronomy. Val Hovey’s...
June 5, 2026 Our bird-data expert is back, and she has travel plans… Remember, she takes her wardrobe inspiration from this handsome guy: At the end of May, our heroine had a pretty lovely 24-piece wardrobe: And her accessories were...
Four years ago, in the article What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?, I wrote the following prophetic words: […] Which gets me back to this website. My intentions are to someday publish its contents in the form of a book, which...