Today’s e-mail from my favorite online shopping site, dealnews.com, came with a listing for 100 tiny six-sided dice for only $1.90, including shipping. There’s a game in there somewhere. (I know, I know. It’s Champions.) Better yet, they go down in price if you buy in bulk. You could get, for instance, 1,000 dice for only $13.20, plus $1.70 for …
New House!
Last night, we accepted a counter-offer on the house we wanted. It’s a grand, old place in the same school district we’re in now, so the kids won’t have to move away from their friends, but it’s in a nicer neighborhood. It has almost twice the space of our current house–which we need, since we’re bursting at the seams here–and …
Are Historicals the New Science Fiction?
I try to follow literary trends as best I can, and it seems like we have a wealth of historical novels these days–far beyond the Michener-like epics–and a dearth of science-fiction. It’s almost as if the two genres have flipped around, that historicals have supplanted the purpose of science-fiction. In many ways, we live in the science-fiction world our parent …