Jewelweed and bumblebees — It seems August has caught my attention more so than usual this year. Perhaps it is because I’ve been able to spend a greater amount of time outdoors. …

The Dark Scent Of Rain — Part VI — My attendance at the Shore Leave sci-fi convention and some personal business that required tending to has thrown my schedule off a bit, but the next episode of The Dark Scent of Rain is finally here! To make it up to you, it’s a slightly longer than usual (about 1200…

Selling haiku by the seashore? — August is a difficult month for me. It is hard to find the best subject for a haiku. Is August: thunderstorms that sweep over the land? hazy and hot mid-day sun? crickets and frogs singing in the twilight? the browning of the fields as the grass dries? a warm…

It ain’t country… — I went to a show at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia this week. If you’re not familiar with this music venue, I can tell you the list on Wikipedia of performers who have graced its halls is nowhere close to complete. I’ve seen Sawyer Fredericks, Jim Brickman, and Loreena McKennitt…

No, it’s not what you think… — It’s summer here. It’s hot. But I was born in the South; I can deal with that. Sounds like a perfect day for a run. It had been a while since I’d gone for a run. The trail I like is near where I drop off bulk recycling, so having…

Setting up and settling in — This is the second in a series of articles about the Shore Leave 43 sci-fi convention. The first article may be found HERE. Not a lot happens on Friday until after 3:00 pm, which makes the art show set-up easier. And that’s why we got there a day early. Getting…

Another year, another article — or two, or three! — We arrived early this year for the annual Shore Leave sci-fi convention. I had more to cart into the hotel than usual. There was a larger-than-normal box of books to give away and I had items a member of our group needed for an art show display. If you’re not…

Just can’t get my poor self together? — Yes, I’ve changed my titles for the haiku around back to the way they were originally. A while back, another Medium writer suggested I should have something other than the “Haiku for month X” as a title so folks would know what the poem was about. While I’d always had…

Let’s have a little ChatGPT — There’s been a lot of complaining by Twitter users about the recent restrictions on the number of posts a Twitter user can read or post. This will probably be temporary (if it hasn’t changed by the time I post this) until a change is made to the way Twitter works…