Playing Catch-Up
My collection of links, garnered over days of poking at various websites briefly and putting them aside, has achieved critical mass again, and threatens to shut down all the stuff I’m currently working...
View ArticleExploding Rocks, Atomic Bombs, People Shooting Each Other
The name of the game is mayhem, today, folks! Hatfields & McCoys is a miniseries about the most famous feud in U.S. history, featuring Kevin Costner. Apparently, the McCoys are apparently...
View ArticlePoison, History, Health
I’ve collected a fair few items about history, and I never seem to really have a good place for them anymore, now that Reprint is done. Everybody’s heard of Florence Nightingale, but there was another...
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Things I Learned from the Family Reunion
I learned all kinds of crazy things about my family from my family reunion. Somebody made a disc of pictures from my great-grandmother, and that was pretty instructive too. 1. My ancestors on my...
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A Wicked Bad Poisonous Brew
Coffee? It’s probably for the best that I’m not married. If I were, my hypothetical husband might be a little worried about all the poison-related articles that I’ve been accruing. Then I probably...
View ArticleHire a Woman? Terrible Idea!
Australia’s National Archives have put up a relic of sexism from the nation’s Department of Trade describing why exactly it would be such a terrible idea to have a woman serve as an assistant trade...
View ArticleHappy Ada Lovelace Day!
It’s Ada Lovelace Day, a good day to celebrate women in technology careers! If you don’t know who Ada Lovelace is, check out this wonderful Science Chicks blog post. She was the first computer...
View ArticleHalloween Roundup: Witches, Wizards, Superman and Inexplicably, Kale
Plenty of Halloween-related material out there this week, and the Smithsonian in particular has a lot of great stuff. Kale can be used to predict what your spouse will be like! No, it doesn’t make a...
View ArticleHistorical Snowstorms and Blizzards
I’ve written about the Children’s Blizzard today, but decided to put it into Reprint because of the focus on history. I’m very glad that the blizzard we had over the weekend did not kill 250-500 people.
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Dungeons and Dragons Lovers Need to Visit Jamestown
Dread Gazebo One of the best stories in all of Dungeons & Dragons is the tale of the Dread Gazebo, in which a storyteller’s group meets a gazebo and, not knowing what it is, assumes it’s a monster...
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What Should a Princess Look Like?
I had the best princess role model when I was a child. Although she had beautiful dresses and ornate, stylish hairdos just like the Disney lineup of princesses, she also carried a blaster, didn’t take...
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A Real Newsman Reaches –30–
I didn’t want to be a reporter, though I do love the work. I came to the newspaper business largely by accident, during college. At the time, I wrote mostly fiction, and although I found creative...
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