One of the things that occurred to me while in Egypt was the paucity of international news we receive here in the states. Over there, the few times I had the TV on, we wound up watching BBC News. And when I sought an English language newspaper, I wound up reading The International Herald Tribune […]
My final report from the road.Kate looks good and is happy here; having adjusted to what is essentially Third World life. She has managed to fend for herself as she has moved from the dorms to a flat and secured DSL and basic services. Her Arabic allowed her to help us deal with cabbies, waiters […]
WEEK TWOFriday:Week two began with the first of several early mornings. We were up and out by 5 in order to get to the airport for our 7 a.m. flight to Aswan. Even at that hour, cabbies somehow manage to sniff out fairs.From the airport, we taxied to the port and after a little trouble […]
Greetings from Egypt. Or more like There and Back Again. Despite my hopes, internet connectivity was spotty right up through the end of the trip.When we’ve been away before I have tended to provide detailed reports from the road but with a trip of this length, that’s really not practical.Instead, let’s go to the highlights […]
My bags are packed I’m ready to go…Tonight, Deb and I leave for Egypt, anxiously awaiting a two week visit with Kate and a chance to visit an exotic locale. We’ve had this on the horizon for so long that when it finally arrived, we were more than a little surprised. But ready.Robbie declined a […]
I am second to none in my approval of Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn being voted into the Hall of Fame. Heck, if possible, I would have enshrined Ripken the summer after his retirement.Some players are terrific and deserve to be in the Hall given their accomplishments, like Gwynn.Some transcend the game and come to […]
This week the Consumer Electronics Show is in Las Vegas and the dazzling new gadgets will fill web pages and newspapers for days to come and then, later this week, all eyes will turn to MacWorld and the latest doodads from Apple.Within the next year or so, many of the items being ballyhooed this week […]
There hasn’t been all that much activity on the writing front and suspect the first half of 2007 will be on the slow side since I am working on the unnamed project which has a due date of June 15 and honestly, I can only take on so much. But, as I prepare for vacation, […]
A good way to enter the New Year…After lamenting the sad state of book royalties yesterday, my pal Dave Galanter shared with me a fine review of the anthology we share, Star Trek: Constellations, which appeared at Stephen Hunt’s SF Crowsnest.While Eammon Murphy generally likes the book as a whole, he did say the following […]
One of the discussions we seldom get into at writers’ panels at conventions is the financial side. For some, they’re uncomfortable discussing what they earn for their efforts. Others truly can’t figure out their finances so can’t talk about it. For whatever reason, it’s just something that doesn’t get explored often.As most know, a writer […]
I meant to write this yesterday but wound up spending just about the entire day ensconced in the office, working on that darned unannouncable project. Managed to get the first section completed, though, and therefore wound down the year on the positive note.In looking back, 2006 was a far more transitional year than I ever […]