Author: marylowd

My kid was frustrated with an errand running long last night, so I asked ChatGPT to tell us a joke about boba drinks, as we were gonna pick some up as a treat. It got so excited that I started just playing along and telling it, sure, I’d like to see whatever it suggested next… Continue reading ““Steeped in Drama””

The way Battlestar Galactica (‘04) handles politics is really exceptional. I’d forgotten just how good it is, and I don’t think I’d ever realized quite how much it affected my thinking when writing early Otters In Space.

And I wish it weren’t so relevant now. Continue reading “Back in the Pacific Northwest”

While we were in Denmark for five days, I wrote three poems, started Otters In Space 5, did some brainstorming for short story ideas, read a Hans Christian Andersen story in the original Danish, and visited the following places: Continue reading “Copenhagen Itinerary”

After some deliberation, we’ve concluded that while I’m willing to try to stay awake for a couple more hours for the sake of trying to be on local time… I am not actually fit to leave the place we’re staying and interact with the outside world until I’ve slept again. Sleeeeep…. Continue reading “While in Copenhagen…”