Empathy is the sure path to tolerance & where but in fiction can we walk it in so many different shoes?
Tales of adventure form life with my leaky-waders hero, our furry overlords, and my day-job pushing back the frontiers of science
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille, the husband likes to quote to me any time I leave him with the tiniest, little chore to complete – you know how husbands are. This fall, however, the song fit on the spouse. No spouse in the history of spouses has ever picked a worse […]
Stensonian Genius 2015: January My husband and I have been married for nigh on twenty years. It has been a very good twenty years. Every now and again, of course, even my marvel-spouse does something so boneheaded, I temporarily wonder if praying mantises don’t have a healthier attitude towards long-term relationships. Imagine, for instance, what […]
Destination-travel for when mundane reality needs a time out
Panda: Volume I Winds of Change S. C. Stenson Chapter 1 The Winds of Change Come Rolling In – Julia – “Start, damn it!” A phone went flying across the room, landing on a pile of dirty clothes near an outlet. Julia’s primary lifeline to the outside world was dead as a doornail. Heck, why should […]
Chapter 51 A word, Young Lady Before Ric immerged from his room to be besieged by the entire family again, he called Julia in for her private chat. It sounded ominous. Julia was only slightly less nervous than Paetrick had been in the same spot a few hours prior. Julia had the luxury of a clearer […]
Definition of a Sportsman's Widow is a woman married to a fishing-nut, but herself quite sane.
When one contemplates the most dangerous pass-times known to human kind, fishing is usually not the first thing that comes to mind. Quite the opposite, the term fly fishing generally conjures up visions of the stately gentleman or lady standing by a pristine stream glinting in the sun (the stream, not the angler), fall foliage […]
How ironic that nowadays one has to be rich to be able to afford not to despoil the environment. All that is required are a few solar panels here, a small windmill there; a few appliances exchanged for energy-saving ones here, the old heating system scrapped for modern heat-exchangers there; a few composters here and a […]
