You may not have seen me around on the blog or social media these last few weeks. That’s because I went on a two-week trip to Europe, from which I just returned a few days ago. I had some novel research to do in various places, and the German edition of TERMS OF ENLISTMENT was…
Category: travel.
paradise lost.
I just spent a long weekend down in San Antonio, Texas, for the Paradise Lost 5 writing workshop. I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the event, and I took the opportunity to participate in the retreat track. San Antonio is a lovely city, and the company was fantastic. I met up with…
noo yawk city.
I’m in New York City at the moment, attending NY Comic Con, meeting up with friends, and doing a little bit of Big City Stuff. I haven’t been back in the city since maybe 2000, so it’s interesting to see how much has changed around here. It’s kind of trendy to talk smack about NYC,…
hey, look. it’s july already.
Wow, will you look at that calendar? Seems like we’re a week into July already. I’m still writing on the third Frontlines novel, which was TECHNICALLY DUE LAST MONTH. Erm. Let us not speak of this right now and continue on to other subjects. (I’ll be done soon, I promise.) Team Munchkin Wrangler just got…
i done did a writing retreat.
I got back from my super-secret writing retreat late Saturday night, and now it’s back to work in the regular office in the back of the house, with no company except for the dogs. For an introvert, I sure like being around my friends. A few related bullet points: The Bose noise-cancelling earbuds are completely…
that’s where they make those little sausages, right?
I organized the digital shoebox and found some more shots from our visit to Vienna last year. That was a really nice trip-within-a-trip. I want to go there again, with a little more time and a less busy schedule.
at least we didn’t fit naugahyde upholstery to the thing.
So Voyager 1 is the first man-made object to officially leave the solar system and travel into interstellar space. Anyone else bothered by the fact that we sent a thing into space that contains a map to its origin planet and an open invitation? “Hi, we’re a barely space-faring civilization that you could probably conquer…
travel report, part the third.
When we scheduled the Europe trip, I intentionally scheduled the busy stuff toward the beginning of the vacation, especially the trip to Vienna. That meant we had the second half of the trip free for family business and shopping in the local area. My family is from the Muenster area, and that’s where I grew…
travel report, part the second.
When last we checked in with our intrepid correspondent, Team Munchkin Wrangler had returned from their excellent little side trip to Vienna. Back at my brother’s place, we spent the next few days with Family Stuff™. One thing that really worked out well on this trip was the way in which we were able to…
travel report, part the first.
First off—our trip was pretty stellar. All the flights and trains were on schedule, all our luggage came along with us, and even though our schedule was packed from front to back, it was actually a pretty relaxing vacation as such things go. We left on February 13th, the day before Quinn’s birthday. Our flights…