For those who haven’t seen it, here’s David Tennant’s exuberant opening for this year’s BAFTA awards. For those looking for a wee bit of relief from out country’s incessant drumbeat of madness and doom. (Maybe it’s not so doomy in Britain.) WARNING: Scottish accents.

Here we are back at the Grand Canyon. Center left, you can see a side canyon striking off to the distant north rim. This is near a place called Grandview, which was the site of the canyon’s only hotel from 1893. Pete Berry had arrived as a miner, but found lodging more profitable. He built […]

Here’s a view from the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. I don’t remember quite where. The canyon is probably twelve or fifteen miles broad at this point, and what you see of the geology is complex. I’d been to the North Rim in 2008, but I’d last been on the South Rim in 1977, when I […]

Nobody bothered to tell me this, but due to a fortunate accident I discovered that Amazon is running a $1.99 special on the latest Praxis novel, Imperium Restored. The other ebook sites will generally follow Amazon and cut their own prices, so if you don’t have an Amazon account, check your favorite ebook retailer for […]