Microfiction contest round two results: Sweeter
I’ve just been informed that I made it through the second round of the NYC Midnight Microfiction contest I updated you on recently and am on to the final ...
Author: Reay
Lessons learned from children
There’s a lot that grown-ups can learn from kids. Yes, we have bills to pay and jobs to go to (or, even more stressful for many more these days, not), and...
Summer camps in Covid times
I write this shortly after my nine-year-old has been dropped off at a summer day camp. Your reaction to that line will range from some variation of “Hey, ...
Swimming in new shark (no, alligator!) infested waters
A couple of friends of mine forwarded this post about a deal that a TV and movie production company struck with Netflix, which will see a number of films from u...
Monarchs are cool
Off and on for a couple of years, we’ve raised monarch butterflies from eggs to first flight. It’s really cool to see. There’s something satis...
Fun with photos
A couple of Christmases back I received a little set of photo lenses that clip onto my cell phone, and while I haven’t used them a ton–a fisheye len...
What I read this month
June was no less busy for the household than previous isolation months had been, and in some ways was even more busy. On top of the usual busyness of taking car...
Microfiction contest round one results: Sweet
I mentioned recently that I was entering the NYC Midnight Microfiction contest, wherein writers have to write no more than 100 words for a story the organizatio...
What I’m reading
There may be no genre I enjoy as much, but can be so disappointed by, as science fiction. Any genre has its good and bad, of course, but I find the best science...
Isolation Day 84 Game: Trivial Pursuit-Family Edition
The Family Edition of Trivial Pursuit is effectively the Junior version of the original game: Here, as you roll the die to move around the spoked wheel of the b...