1) There are some excellent stories in Lightspeed’s “Women Destroy Science Fiction” issue. They explore some of the very ideas that I’ve wanted to write about but couldn’t figure out how. Maybe reading them will help me figure it out.
2) Both of my children are healthy.
3) Shelties are beautiful.
4) 3D printers are real. They can print prosthetic limbs, also more frivolous things. Maybe someday they’ll be common enough that I’ll have one. (A 3D printer. Not a prosthetic limb.)
5) My grandmother’s piano — which was the first thing I’d see when I came through the door of my house during most of my childhood — is the first thing I see when I come through the door of my house now. It’s beautiful, familiar, and I can play “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” on it.