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Mar.11.2013 Go West, Young Man (and North, and South, and...) I've started to get some of my schedules for upcoming conferences, and it's reminded me how much traveling I'm going to be doing over the next six months. I'll be at Norwescon in Seattle at the end of March, Ad Astra in Toronto a week later, Origins in Columbus in June, Readercon in Boston...	Dec.07.2012 Origins December 7 ORIGINS Pain-filled interactions with people better suited to be left alone changed me in the way of acceptance. Wretched relationships with people made it difficult for me to have a loving relationship with the world. I had imprinted as a...
Sep.13.2012 Annie Murphy Paul: Exploring the Ultimate Learning Space Those of us fascinated by learning and how we are affected by the places where learning occurs find ourselves exploring a wonderfully unexpected learning space in Annie Murphy Paul’s Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives: the womb. It is Paul...	Jun.23.2012 Prometheus, the Movie - It Promises and Almost Delivers This is the sort of adventure movie that I'm usually drooling over, the missus simply tolerating and along for the ride. This time, as the popcorn and nachos disappeared, she leaned over and whispered, "I really like this!" It's a Ridley Scott flick, and by the time of the missus...
Nov.24.2011 Jet Lagging November 24 Jet Lagging Baby’s feet kick in the isle and we are all cocooned in our seats. The movies play and earphones dangle in our ears. We are jetting across the country in our own little worlds. Landing can not happen soon enough for me,...	Oct.19.2011 Royalty And Stage Royalty Denounce The Fake Shakespeare Movie Mind you, I still want to see the movie. It looks to be well done and entertaining (and exciting). And all the denouncing it gets is - let's face it - publicity for the film itself. But when the heir to the royal throne of Elizabeth I takes note, take note we should. It's become a family affair....
May.21.2011 Truth and Fictional Truth Thought you might like a peek at this article I recently wrote for the Indian magazine NRIMatters: Will an American girl and her Hindu Brahmin mother-in-law grind the man in the middle into chutney? That's the premise of my multicultural debut novel, Shiva’s Arms, and the first thing that...	Sep.23.2010 Does Anybody Know my Name? My forthcoming novel has gotten me to look at my origins in the eternal conundrum of imagination and identity. I found this column from over twelve years ago, written for the Chronicle as a guest-editor for Jon Carroll. My origins--the strange bi-cultural nature of them--have always been hard to...
Dec.11.2009 The Origin of Gargoyles Sometimes, history gets it wrong. Terribly wrong. Such is the case with the origin of Gargoyles, those fanciful, grotesque sculptures carved in gray stone that began appearing on the cathedrals of Europe in the 1200s. Sculptures, that is, with a job: to transport rainwater far away from the...	Aug.25.2009 ROOTS OF BLOG The future affects the past, which affects the present. The current McSweeneys (31) < http://tr.im/x53h > includes a form / format w/ resonance to blogging. BIJI * — — n o t e b o o k musings anecdotes quotations believe-it-or-not fiction social anthropology legends local...

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