Congrats Master Chobi!!! Love Monty (&Chris) #SalemState16

#SalemState16 Congratulations Jenny Koningisor from Aunt Nan, Aunt Kate, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, and Chris!!!

Interesting new journal on SF from Museum of Science Fiction in D.C., free under Creative Commons: [MJOSF] Vol. 1, No. 1: Full PDF Download

Writers! Applications open for Taos Toolbox, intense 2-week workshop July in NM taught by Walter Jon Williams and me taostoolbox.com

Spent morning looking for extrasolar planet to set a story. And the winner is - - Luhman16! Planet wishes to thank the Big Bang and gravity

First flower grown in space -- a zinnia. news.yahoo.com/astronauts-gro…

LOCUS published a very nice review of THE BEST OF NANCY KRESS. Very pleased! Russell Letson praised my characters, which is important to me

Just spent ten minutes clearing and loading a jammed stapler, including stapling my finger. Not a good start to the day.

So now I know why I have no allergies but am very susceptible to infections: I lack enough Neanderthal genes! latimes.com/science/scienc…

Flying with a small, yappy, anxious dog is not fun.

4 degrees Farenheit in Buffalo this morning. Time to return to Seattle

Snow falling on Buffalo. And falling and falling and falling...

Today is the winter solstice, I'm going to go outside and beat on pans so that the sun will return.

Space X has managed to vertically land a space rocket on Earth. A big step forward! mashable.com/2015/12/21/spa…

Spent too much last year on Kindle books. So insidiously easy to order them.

Taos Toolbox, two-week intensive writing workshop by Walter Jon Williams and me, now open for applications taostoolbox.com

SF for middle-school girls, including my story 'The Aliens and Me,' plus 21 more. Holiday gift for a young girl!

Decorating for Christmas the easy way....

Moving along on new novel. Denouement always a problem: too short and not enough is wrapped up, too long and it's anticlimactic.

Saw film SUFFRAGETTE-- raises good question: how far to go breaking laws to create better world before civil disobedience becomes terrorism?