Tales from the Raven

As I continue rewrites on Popcorn I’m thinking about love and hate, and why it is that human beings are so difficult to satisfy.  As a teen girl I either adored the guys I dated or despised them, there was never anything in between.  Well, okay, except the ones I just didn’t take seriously, but [...]

My favorite keepsake from our visit to Yellowstone is this great lunk of a key that I found on the ground in our campsite outside of West Yellowstone. I literally stumbled over it, and then began the process of making sure it was truly an orphan so I could keep it. Since our camp was [...]

We’re not home yet, but I have internet.  Hooray!  That plus a soft bed and a laptop equal a blog, wouldn’t you say?  Here are a few highlights from our Yellowstone trip.
 
This geyser has nothing like the popularity of Old Faithful, but it proved to be my favorite.  It had an amusing habit of spraying [...]

On this beautiful Independence Day I’ve had the chance to see firsthand that our advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have come much further than most people realize.  These robots are able to walk and move much like human beings, and even do a pretty good job of talking like real people.  They’re good enough [...]

After quizzing the aquarium staff at the Georgia Aquarium until they must have wondered if I was some kind of secret shopper for all things fishy, then heading over for a two parts delight, one part misery visit to the Terracotta warriors (the misery was due to our arriving at the same time as the school groups), we [...]

First, happy April Fool’s Day!  I’d planned on coming up with some clever joke for the blog, but expended all my cleverness trying to get back in the house in an obnoxious and early April Fool’s joke I played on myself.
Sigh.  Maybe next year. 
After a very rocky start on Tuesday in which the locksmith was [...]

Tonight I look around and find myself not only home, but in one piece.  So, I guess it’s time to get up the report for the trip.  Since I’m way too lazy to write ten thousand words (except in my books) I’ll let my pictures do most of the talking and just fill in with captions [...]

This morning we went out for an early morning walk along the beach, and also got to climb about a bit on the rocks.  We had a fair amount of company on the boardwalk, but this lady seemed to be taking up more than her share of the space.  Can’t imagine what it was–she has [...]

So we got into Miami Beach last night, and just check out our hotel!

Our room is the second gutted room from the right on the third floor.  Just try to contain your envy.