Ponant

June 6, 2023

So there came the morning when Kathy tested positive for COVID, followed by a frantic hour that resulted in our separation for nearly two weeks. I went off on the trip without her, and she was condemned to days and days of coughing, confinement, and hotel food. My digs were rather more posh, and the […]

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Deity

June 1, 2023

A local goddess relaxes before her temple.

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Gastronomy

May 31, 2023

There are a surprisingly large number of Michelin-starred restaurants on Malta. Despite my devotion to gastronomy, I’d never eaten at a restaurant with a Michelin star, and I thought it was about time I did. So even though I knew that Kathy and I were going to be facing a week of very large and […]

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Launch Day!

May 30, 2023

A new audiobook launches today! The Praxis Triad consists of all the short fiction from my Praxis series, read by the dulcet Stefan Rudnicki. Because the stories were published by different publishers they’ll never be together in print, but here they are together in audio format. And Impersonations isn’t even short fiction— technically, at over […]

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The Beginning of History

May 29, 2023

So now we get to the chief reason I wanted to go to Malta in the first place: to view the gigantic stone monuments found on the island. There is nothing like them anywhere else. They were built out of the local limestone roughly 3500-2500 BCE— before the Pyramids, before Stonehenge. They are right smack […]

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Innovator

May 28, 2023

A monument to the inventor of the minidress.

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Co-Cathedral

May 27, 2023

A sight of St. John’s cathedral in Valetta is enough to sear the eyes right out of your skull. The style adopted for the interior was Go-For-Baroque, with enough gold, marble, and brilliant color to rival a fever dream of John of Patmos (as opposed to John the Baptist, for whom the cathedral is actually […]

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Behind the Walls

May 26, 2023

First, an update. Kathy’s finally come home after 13 days in COVID jail in a hotel room in Malta. And I’ve got a cold, which tests insist isn’t COVID, so two cheers for me. But enough of the depressing stuff. Let’s talk about the good things. We spent a few days on Malta before Kathy […]

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Well Damn

May 25, 2023

The world has lost Tina Turner. She had a career that lasted over 50 years and even in the new millennium she was still one of the hardest-working acts in the business. (She danced for how many hours? And in those heels?) Here she is at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, […]

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Worst. Trip. Ever.

May 19, 2023

After 24 hours in planes and airports I’ve returned from the Med, jetlagged, miserable, in considerable pain, and without Kathy. This trip sucked. Bad luck struck on my first day in Valetta, when I tripped on a marble stair and seriously damaged my right knee. The heavy frames on my sunglasses blocked my view of […]

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