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I’ve been asked to speak at a Wright State University forum; their Honors Institute is having a symposium on Chinese-American relations called “Connecting With China”, and I’m to talk on “Exploring Issues in Cross-Cultural Adoptions” from 2-4 pm, February 17th. The event is free to the public, but you have to register in advance to [...]
It was wonderful to see people at the con; the best part, to me, was wandering around and chatting with con friends I hadn’t seen in a while and catching up with them. Long chats with Kerri Ellen Kelly, Christa (Linda Sugar’s sister), Deb Kosiba (who was minding her store, so to speak, and I [...]
Still tired from the con; the entire family went minus Grandma Connie but including my visiting niece Kelbi, who decided to volunteer for the childcare room, and worked her butt off there! ( I think she racked up 15 hours…very dedicated.) She didn’t want the con, she wanted the kids! Well, chacun a son gout, [...]
A change in the Wikipedia was reported over to me that took POINT OF DIVERGENCE, the Alternate History discussion APA, out of its page on the term. The reason given was ‘ well, the group isn’t active and hasn’t been since 2004.’ Totally not true. The APA just put out issue #51 the other day. [...]
After thirty years of being in APAs and much of that being involved in the running of several as OE, I just gave up the editorship of POINT OF DIVERGENCE to two folks who will do a splendid job in the role, and hope to settle back into just helping and contributing, and not having [...]
For the next issue of Point of Divergence, I’m working on a set of things that – well, they may seem to be very different, but the do have a semi-convergence somewhere-out-there. Number one is a project on China. I’ve been doing a huge amount of research on China for the last seven years; lots [...]
I’d forgotten about this, too. Though I don’t quite know where to start in ‘filling in the gaps…’