Halloween at the Heights: Artillery in Harpers Ferry

by | Oct 28, 2013 | history

Firmly on the other side of the government shut down (ahem, for now) and before the government sequester sets in (sorry Sesquicentennial 2014), this past weekend was our annual jaunt to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia for Artillery Weekend. Let me rephrase.  Artillery...

First 100 pages: the last eleven were the longest of my life

by | Oct 15, 2013 | Writing

For some reason, it seemed like a good idea to, you know, hold off blogging until I hit the big 100 page marker in Random Contemporary.  I don’t know why.  I started writing a dull post on NaNoWriMo, but literally bored myself to sleep.  “Well, I’ll...

Storming the fort: And thus, I stood outside Fort Roberdeau.

by | Oct 6, 2013 | history

I stood outside Fort Roberdeau, because I didn’t have enough money to get in. Soooo, this weekend The Hubs, The Rowdy Boys, and I journeyed to glamorous central Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University and a surprising amount of cows.  This conversation...

No government? That's okay, we have baseball.

by | Oct 1, 2013 | Randomness

And I’m back.I had some kind of plague last week.  I don’t know what kind of nasty bug I was fighting off, but I was exhausted.  And when I say exhausted, what I mean was I was working on Random Contemporary one second and fast asleep with my face pressed...