Tag: Fiction
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WonderCon 2025
This is my 3rd year attending WonderCon, for me the first Con of the season at the end of March, and somehow it just wasn’t as much fun this year. Not necessarily the Con’s fault, but that of my own attitude. One remarkable thing about this year’s Con was the simultaneous presence in the hotel…
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The Con’s the Thing
Why do I go to cons? One reason is to hang out with like-minded people or at least with those who share many of my enthusiasms. But I can do those things at home. Some folks go to meet their heroes, writers they admire, but I’m old and I met Bradbury, Ellison, Sturgeon, Herbert, Zelazny,…
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Adventures in Job-Shopping
If you’ve read my posts A Gringo’s Christmas and Arriving in California, you have some hint about the adventures and misadventures of my father that may parallel the stories of many of his generation. My father was born during the twenties and, like most of his contemporaries, served in WWII although, due to circumstances way…
Musings of a Restless Mind 