It’s been a while since I posted anything here. Not that nothing has been happening, and while it would be easy to blame COVID, there seem to have been so many things going on, that putting a few paragraphs here has continued to slide down the list.

I watched the launch and splashdown of the SpaceX mission, and openly confess to a lump in my throat at both ends of the mission. I’ll definitely be watching when the next mission launches in September. Another event that didn’t get as much media coverage was comet Neowise, that completed its slingshot around the Sun and is now heading back toward the outer Solar System. As I write this in mid-August, you may still be able to see it in the western sky. I went out a couple of weeks ago and managed to find Neowise through binoculars. It wasn’t as spectacular SpaceX, but impressive all the same.

On the writing front, it’s been a mixed bag. Written words have been much lower than I planned, or wanted, and the Babylon novel is making steady progress, although slower than I’d like. I have a planned publication date, and will let everyone know when it firms up.

Finally, my Babylon short story “Family Harmony” is in the September/October issue of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, available now.