Archive for May, 2007

Countercurrents

Usually when I see a site I like I subscribe to its RSS feed and it shows up in the left column here, but this site out of Kerala, India has no feed, so I’m putting it here to remind me to go back and read it sometime.

Fowlfiction

Here is a small sample of the reams of material Laura has been supplying to the Artemis Fowl fan community. And here’s another.
She has been putting in a lot of time at this the last couple of months, and it shows. Her dialogue gets better every time I look at it. She has as good [...]

Minneapolis

Hied me to the ancestral homeland for a week to attend a professional conference and see friends and family. My first day here I got to see my mom (right) and my sister Jo (left) perform with a flute choir called Flute Cocktail, accompanied by my brother Nathaniel on the Andean quena and related tubular [...]

Rockets

Lilly’s classmate Xavier was talking about shooting off toy rockets with his dad, and Lilly decided she wanted to do that too. So last week we ordered a kit from Hobbylinc.com and put it together, and today we went out with Xavier, Dan (his dad) and his big sister Guadalupe to a softball field in [...]