Tag: Economic Reality

  • One Year and Counting

    One Year and Counting

      It has been a year since the world took a sharp left turn.  Last year, the Little Man and I were planning a garden. He was muddling through school. The First Reader was waiting on his father’s deathbed (or so we thought. Spoiler alert: stubborn old men can sometimes have astounding powers of recovery).…

  • Review: Mistress of the Waves

    Review: Mistress of the Waves

    Starships are meant to fly… So yes, I do listen to my daughter’s music from time to time. But that line caught me, and it came back as I finished Mistress of the Waves and started thinking more about the central premise of the story. George Phillies succeeded in doing something that rarely works out…