Category life
My Take on AI
You don’t need yet another rant about AI (except, maybe take a look at Pope Leo’s), specifically generative AI, but I’m going to write one anyway. For my own protection and survival as a creative person. As a writer. Because the day will come when I might be accused of using AI in my writing […]
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
If you’ve taken an Alaska cruise, chances are you visited the dramatic fjords that are home to many glaciers. I did this in 2009 (I even got a short story out of it). The other day on NPR, I heard about a tsunami in one of these fjords, but I missed the real context. The […]
More Sports!
The Olympics are over but not the drama. In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. women won ice hockey gold! Then the men won. Who did the president speak to as they celebrated? The men. He invited them to the State of the Union address, adding, per USA Today (and, well, everyone), “I must tell […]
Sports!
We’re midway through the Olympics and I’m enjoying them—while wondering how many more winter games can exist in this warming world. But that’s not what this blog is about. I’ve discovered women’s ice hockey. Well, I’ll be damned! That’s the game I used to love! But with women! I’m sure women have been playing ice […]
The Appeal of Mrs. Peel
I’m sure much has been written about Diana Rigg’s turn as Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s British TV show The Avengers. I’m rewatching it now and I have my own thoughts. I first watched this show when I was a kid. My dad and I loved it. The rest of the family didn’t care […]
Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw*
This has been quite the year, hasn’t it? If you need a break, stick around, though I can’t promise it won’t make you squeamish.
I believe in letting nature do its thing. And by that I mean on some level life only exists to feed other life.
The State of the State of My Mind
I woke up yesterday morning with many thoughts racing through my mind. And this was before the shocking ambush of an ally in the Oval Office. That often happens, and it’s what gets me out of bed. Usually the thoughts swirl around whatever I’m writing—a cool plot twist, a key conversation, the realization or solution […]
Putting a Marker Down on 2025
I’m a lousy blogger, which is fine since you all have more than enough in your daily feed to keep you thinking, laughing, obsessing—whatever you need. It’s not that I have nothing to say. I have more than enough—see the daily feed above. I just can’t settle on one topic long enough to say what […]
Revisiting Wishbone
Back in better days, mid-October, I got word that my novel Wishbone would be included in the I Heart SapphFic Reading Challenge for “Main Character in Uniform.” I was thrilled! I didn’t think about how I might feel this week. Knowing this was an election year, my emotions have ranged from hopeful optimism, to concern, […]
Happy Fourth of July!
I hope this isn’t the last time I can say that. There are a lot of horrible things going on around the world, and I care about all of them deeply even if I don’t write about them. Sudan is on the brink of famine, China and Taiwan are on the brink of war, the […]
Elaine Burnes 