The hardest thing to do is to do nothing at all. I was reading an article about medicine, medical care, mental health, and psychotherapy, and the motto of ‘first do no harm’ which is part of the foundation of medical ethics. The Hippocratic Oath contains the phrase “abstain from doing harm” and the idea is… Read More Mother’s Touch
I’ve written rather a lot over the years about biology and the human condition. We are driven by our endocrine system to some extent, we are shaped not only by nurture, but the nature of how our parents and grands and great-grands and so on lived – more and more we realize just how much… Read More Mother Moth
One of these days… maybe this coming month, since I have been living at a flat run this last 6-7 weeks, I will compile and publish a collection of short stories and flash fiction. For years I thought I couldn’t write anything longer than a short, so I have probably a dozen rattling around in… Read More Free Story: Girl Talk
Guest post written by Lissa Hailey. Cedar: Lissa posted this on her facebook timeline and tagged me in it, then graciously allowed me to put it up here on my blog. I think it’s an excellent essay on the personal impact of feminism. As most of my readers know, I wasn’t raised in mainstream American… Read More The Rational, Thinking Woman
I often touch on social issues, and occasionaly very personal ones, on this blog. Earlier today I did this, writing not only on behalf of my children, but of every child of a disrupted family that has ever overheard adults dismissing them as worthless and hopelessly damaged because of it. My dears, it simply isn’t… Read More Kintsukori
Here it is, folks, the last snippet on the blog.. but you can buy the book now! (ebook release is officially tomorrow). Happy reading, and be sure to leave a review. I look forward to hearing what you thought of the whole thing. If you’re so inclined, pass the word on that the book is… Read More The God’s Wolfling: Final Snippet
This is mirror-posted over at According To Hoyt, and you can read all of it there. I am a weapon. When the time comes to strike, the tool I happen to use is not the weapon, the squishy gray stuff between my ears is. In aid of keeping my weapon sharp, I have done various… Read More Keep Calm…
Which is another way of saying this is a catch-all post. My schedule for today is homework, more homework, work-work, possible lunch with friends (yay!), and if that happens and I have my homework done, I get to go shoot butterflies. Yes, I know you need a teeny-tiny calibre to shoot butterflies… you all are… Read More Daydreaming
You can find snippet one here, and snippet two here, and I really need to make a sticky post for these, hadn’t I? As always, this is a work in progress. Let me know what you think! Oh, and this is a long snippet today, almost 2000 words, but I think you will be familiar… Read More The God’s Wolfling: Snippet 3
No, that’s not a typo. You keep a person in a bubble, you’re going to warp them, physically and emotionally. Bubble wrap, the other spelling, is also an apt metaphor for over-protection. Mirror-posted at According to Hoyt I was working at an indoor playground this weekend, and in between the mad rush of what I… Read More Bubble Warp
I was talking to a friend about the post at Mad Genius Club which I wrote in protest over being bullied into not parenting my children by gently steering them away from books I felt were inappropriate to their ages. She pointed out that I am arguing for innocence. It’s something we have far too… Read More Preservation of Innocence
I’m working on a short story today, about a boy and his dog… and the boy’s spaceship. Then Dave Freer posted this: Zamzummims, where he laments the loss of Science Fiction Giants in the world of the young. We need writers who can give our children wonder, adventure, and a solid science in their fiction.… Read More Young Science Fiction