I’ve told the story before. I had healthcare insurance before Obamacare. It was 100 bucks a month and did what I needed. I spent several years without healthcare after Obamacare ended my insurance, though I finally got Obamacare this year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2017
I’ve learned a lot about writing in the last few years. The first thing I thought I knew after decades of writing stories is that I was at the top of my game and ready for the big leagues. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kara was always the sister who was most interested in language. Cybernetic intelligences communicate with each other completely differently than we do, on more channels than we can imagine. They use spoken language to work with us, but many of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Park helped the Wolfenheim Project for years before it was time to launch. And then he left with it when the time came. John’s stated reasoning was that my father would be unhappy with anyone he thought might be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Branan left their homeworld less than a century after the Albion disappeared. Technically, they’d left numerous times in the years before, using the Albion shuttles to place satellites in orbit, and do all of the other things a young[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dawn and Dorothy have many sisters. A whole gaggle of them joined the Wolfenheim Project once it started kicking with gas. Kara was one of them. I heard rumors that some fine upstanding young gentlemen were moonlighting in the area,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Park tutored me in languages during my formative years. He explained how they were created by the underlying cultures to a young man more interested in girls than language. He taught me how to woo girls in a dozen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is the day to remember what generations of American patriots have fought for. We remember their sacrifice, and we celebrate what they gave us. We remember the Declaration of Independence that brave men signed in the face of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw the new Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean movies in the last two weeks, and in many cases they are the same movie. In other ways, they are completely different. They are both a kind of origin story,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ariel lost everything because of me. My plan. My execution. Her loss. Her ship. Her career. Her name. She had to create a new identity and disappear from the world she’d been born to. But at least she got another[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…