An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I kept calling our dog a baby luck dragon, and the seven-year-old didn’t know what that meant. So, we’re watching The Neverending Story.
I watched The Neverending Story over and over as a kid, both younger than and eventually around the same age as Bastian. The actor, Barret Oliver, reminded me of my cousin. Continue reading “Time Passes, “The Neverending Story” Stays the Same”
Brain: time for an existential crisis!
Me: what? Why?
Brain: you’re saaaaaaaad, probably time to rethink your whole career Continue reading “Identifying the Source of Sadness”
My brain lately:
I miss my dog
What if I don’t really miss my dog and that’s just an excuse? Continue reading “i miss my dog”
Okay, so I knew Deadpool 2 would be sexist and fridge-stuffy. And if my brain were less foggy, I’d have remembered that Ryan Reynolds would spend at best 5% of the movie being pretty instead of masked. So that’s all on me and my choice to watch it… Continue reading “Deadpool 2 and Birds of Prey”
My Sheltie’s favorite game was “we all have toys & we’re all running around.”
This makes sense to me.
My mop dog’s favorite game is “I’m trying to chew on your face without letting you chewing on mine.” Continue reading “Canine Games”
Losing two dogs in two months is a lot. They were five years apart in age. Life has no guarantees.
Trudy’s last day was today… she was sixteen, and yes, she is the dog who inspired Trudith in the Otters In Space trilogy. I could never have written Trudith without her. She was a friend, part of my family, and also an inspiration — one of my muses. Continue reading “Goodbye Trudy”
I saw some men complaining about a piece of historical fiction by a woman having too much sexism, even though it was time period accurate. This bugged me. I think I’ve finally figured out why.
History is full of sexism… Continue reading “Time-Period Accurate Historical Fiction”
When I first watched Farscape, I was checking out DVDs from the Seattle Public Library. You’d wait ages to make it to the top of the hold list, and then you’d get to check out a whole season… for one week. Continue reading “How to Simulate a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster”
I’ve never seen The Goonies before & I guess the reveal of an abandoned pirate ship in a cave would be more impressive if I hadn’t played the Deadmines a ton in World of Warcraft… but I’m still mostly baffled by how this movie seems to be so fondly remembered.
We need more art centering women — LOTS MORE — for so many reasons, but one of them is men need more practice imagining the world through women’s eyes. Continue reading “Who Gets to Be Centered and Why”
Time to watch Farscape from the beginning!
I’d forgotten how much my upcoming Entangled Universe trilogy was influenced by Farscape… one human surrounded by colorful aliens, living spaceship who bonds with a pilot… yeah. I loved this show. Continue reading “Restarting Farscape”