Happy 4th to My American Readers!
Are you celebrating today? What’s your big July 4th tradition? Tell me in comments — I’d love to know.
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Historical Stuff
Virtual Time Travel
It’s a murky picture, because the men in the photo are actually throwing their spears at the picture-taker…and they’re not actors. This is North Sentinal Island, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal off India. The residents of the island live a completely isolated hunter-gatherer lifestyle and have done so for what an
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It’s the Summer Solstice today.
Well, it is in the northern hemisphere. Those down under are flirting with the powers of the winter solstice (don’t touch the standing stones!! 🙂 ) Got whip-lash yet? For me, it was January only two seconds ago and now it’s the summer solstice. The summer and winter solstice celebrations go back into antiquity, and
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Great Outdoors Month
June is Great Outdoors Month in the USA, which is a great idea. Everyone tends to head out in June, as soon as the warmer weather kicks in. Even mole-like people like me appreciate being able to open windows, breathe fresh air and still be warm. I’ve written many stories that were set mostly out
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Canadian Military History on Armed Forces Day
Today is Armed Forces Day. Canada’s Armed Forces Day isn’t a public holiday, although there are parades and fly-bys where there are military bases. There is not a lot of commonly-known history about the Canadian military, and as a new Canadian, I’m still catching up on it. There is waaay more movies and TV series
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The Force and the Apple That Created It
Many readers like reading science fiction because of the mind-warping sense of scale that future-set stories can create. You can put a SF book down and feel very humble about the world, and also quite hopeful for the future. But here’s a real life, contemporary times scale-warping experience: Consider the original apple tree that Newton
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Scratch an Itch
I don’t listen to podcasts very often, primarily because I’m so busy concentrating on (usually) writing and producing books, that I just can’t spare the time to sit and do nothing with my hands while listening to people talk. If I was doing a lot of repetitive activities that didn’t require much mental capacity (driving,
May the Fourth Be With You…
Every year I write about May the Fourth, and every year, it seems, I explain why I cannot ignore the day. So this year, I won’t. 🙂 Instead, I’m bringing forward the most interesting post from previous years. You can also find other May the Fourth posts here and here. Have an interstellar day! t.
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Playing Doctor
No, I’m not referring to bedroom games. Really! In the continuing series on things we don’t have to do anymore, providing medical care for our families is on that list. I remember reading Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott when I was very young. I was too young to appreciate the setting and time period, so
A Cup of Tea…Anything but Simple.
I’ve been doing some mind-blowing research on sailing ships lately (that I might put together in another post someday). We usually consider steel-hulled steam or diesel turbine ships to be better and faster than the sailing ships of old. However, the only way that the world could have been discovered, mapped and settled was with sailing
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