Beluthahatchie

A new profile of me by Lindsey Lowe just was posted at Alumni Extra , published by the University of Alabama alumni office.

(With handclaps.) We would sing 'Happy Birthday' But it's still in copyright And so we wrote this drivel To foist on you to...

My student Shawn Pillai shares a link to a reblogged Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times editorial about airborne surveillance drones, coming so...

Today’s postal mail brought an unpleasant surprise, my first speed-camera ticket. According to Maryland State Police automata, I was going 6...

Of the books I read in 2011, a few favorites, in publication order. Fiction: Jim Thompson, The Getaway (1959). Scary and increasingly sur...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration says it will cut its estimate of the total natural gas in the Marcellus Shale by 80 percent to ma...

I've heard for years, especially from Sydney's family, that a bar of soap in the bed prevents nocturnal leg cramps.  Having never su...

While running errands today, I saw two women and two boys planting a cross beside the U.S. 158 bypass in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. I stopped ...

In our absence this week, the bell post in our front yard finally fell down of its own accord, sparing us a chore we'd been putting off ...

I haven't tried this before, but since I am working on several writing projects this summer, I have declared solidarity with the Clarion...

This fine Richard Hess cover for The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes (Oxford UP, 1985) is a work of alternate history, unlike the book i...

This photo of Sydney Duncan fits none of my other groupings, but I like it, and she's my wife, and she did a great job as author wrangle...

Below: The Dell Award finalists barely could contain themselves. Anthony Powers, Lara Donnelly, Rebecca McNulty, Rachel Sobel, Rachel Halpe...

Below: Gary K. Wolfe, Joe Haldeman and Peter Straub. Below: Rachel Sobel, Rebecca McNulty and Joe Haldeman. Below: Steven Erikson and Aidan-...

Below: Kij Johnson and John Kessel. Below: Jen Gunnels and Ellen Klages. Below: Three photos of Sydney Duncan, Liza Trombi and Karen Burnham...