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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 [...]
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. [...]
Set of covers from APA-69 # 79, drawn by Giovanna Fregni. Gorgeous stuff of dinos getting together in a PG-13 manner, with one catch in the fourth section cover… I’m scanning up all of the APA-69 covers that I have around – 99% of the APAs were shredded a while back in my effort to [...]