Dreamers Often Lie

Oh my goodness, hello! I didn't know you were still here! Did you come here from an RSS feed you thought would never update again, perha...

 We have once again survived another journey around the sun. (This is, of course, constantly true: every moment, another cycle completes, de...

As I write this, approximately 24 hours remain of the year 2022 in the Pacific timezone. While I don't think it has been, on the aggrega...

Another year, another list of things that I interacted with in some way. This list is definitely missing some things, as I sort of fell off ...

I've heard a lot of people talk about meeting old friends after many years and talking like nothing has changed, like no time has passed...

The place is empty when I arrive--there's a bitter wind out there and the streets are icy and why would anyone be out in this? But she...

The times when I've had the thought 'oh, I need to write my December prelude' did not coincide with the times when I felt like I...

What a strange October that was. Warm and sunny and smoky; so many people said it was like summer never ended, but that's not quite righ...

Our friendship developed slowly over our career in the academy; I think we'd known each other for a year before we even had a conversati...

We have learned enough ways to love. It should have been easy, walking away. We'd spent so much time so close to each other that we'...

I don't think I can recall an October that has started out this warm and this dry. There have been sunny Octobers, of course, but we are...

A thought I had today.  I keep having this dream that you find your way home. It's foolish, I know--wherever you are, it must be better ...

A long, hot August has given way, reluctantly, to September. The endless sunlight is rapidly dwindling and even the warm days left lack the ...

August crept up on me this year, as evidenced by the fact that my legally mandated prelude for this month is almost a week late. It happens,...

Traditionally July is about the time that Summer finishes her morning coffee and gets going in earnest; the clouds part and the occasional s...

Usually by the time June rolls around, Spring is clearly on its way out; the layer of clouds that creeps into Seattle and covers it until ea...

One of my favorite recent book series from the past few years is Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota  series, which begins with Too Like the Light...

I've always liked May. In years like this one, when the Spring is cold and Winter's tyranny is slow to fade, it is the month when we...

Spring has arrived limping into the month of April; there is still a chill in the air but it is definitely a spring chill, and if the days a...

I remember as a child at school, the calendar for March was decorated with a lion on one day, a lamb on the next, a cute and literal referen...