I’m in Pittsburgh for the Nebula Conference, organized by the Speculative Fiction Writers Association (SFWA). I gave a talk today: Building Safer, More Inclusive Spaces in Writing Groups. I didn’t realize I didn’t need to make slides, so I made some slides, and I thought…
Category: travel
When I got the email inviting me to attend Clarion, I may have screamed a little. Then I thought, “what if they made a mistake?” Then I screamed a little again. Don’t worry, that’s normal. Then I thought, “Oh God, so I really am going?…
My sister lives in Brooklyn, and so last Friday D and I headed out to visit her and her family. There’s a new two-month-old baby we had to meet, and also we’d missed the winter holidays with them so it seemed like a good time…
D’s parents live on a hobby farm in Comox Valley, on Vancouver Island. During the summer, there are few places more pleasant to spend a week or two. There is a farm bursting with spring produce (although we were too early for blueberry season and…
Today we’re heading up north. D’s parents live on Vancouver Island, on a hobby farm in Comox Valley. They keep horses and a stunning vegetable garden on 25 acres of gorgeous greenery and two greenhouses. It’s a vegetarian’s paradise. I’ve been looking forward to this…