Category Archives: Fun

Friday Musings: Our Latest Adventure In Home Ownership

Posted on January 16, 2026 by dbjackson

Last week, our septic system died. It had been giving us trouble for a while, making dyspeptic noises when we did the laundry or ran too much water through the pipes, draining too slowly, and generally seeming not well. You … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Reviews of Shows We’ve Been Streaming!!

Posted on December 8, 2025 by dbjackson

Nancy and I have been doing a good deal of streaming in our new(-ish) home. We did in the old house, too, once we got serviceable internet (it only took 29 years), but our last year in Tennessee was filled … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: New Anthology Project In The Offing!!

Posted on September 24, 2025 by dbjackson

In the next week or so, we — Sarah J. Sover, the good people at Falstaff Books, and me — will be starting a Kickstarter for a new anthology, Disruptive Intent. Sarah and I will be co-editing the collection. Falstaff … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Musings: Ruminations After Our Latest Travels

Posted on August 5, 2025 by dbjackson

This past week, Nancy and I spent a few days in Philadelphia. I hadn’t been there since the World Science Fiction Convention of 2001 (known, I kid you not, as Millennium PhilCon — think of the name of Han Solo’s … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Remembering My Gram

Posted on March 24, 2025 by dbjackson

This past weekend marked my Gram’s birthday. I won’t tell you how old she would have been because, well, I’m not sure I can do the math. Old. Really old. She passed away in 1983, and at the time she … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: My Big Brother

Posted on March 3, 2025 by dbjackson

People often ask why Nancy and I moved to New York when we left the Appalachians. We could have settled pretty much anywhere, but we chose an area — the Hudson River Valley — that few think of as a … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: A Little Piece of Italy

Posted on February 24, 2025 by dbjackson

Last April, after a grief-filled winter, and a previous fall that was more difficult than I could possibly describe, Nancy and I went to Italy for three weeks — a long-delayed trip that had once been intended as a celebration … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings (On Tuesday): Nesting!

Posted on January 7, 2025 by dbjackson

No, this isn’t a post about birds (though I imagine one or three will be forthcoming before the year is out). As I have already mentioned in this blog, Nancy and I are living in a new place: a house … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings Return!: A Crazy, Wonderful Time

Posted on October 28, 2024 by dbjackson

Where to begin. It has been an amazing and amazingly busy time for Nancy and me. I suppose it began in early September with DragonCon, which was great fun, as it always is. I don’t know how many more DragonCons … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Me And My Guitar…

Posted on July 8, 2024 by dbjackson

Me and my guitar, Always in the same mood; I am mostly flesh and bones, And he is mostly wood. Never does grow impatient For the changes I don’t know, no; If he can’t go to heaven, Maybe I don’t … Continue reading →

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