point of view

A few years ago, one of the ministers in the church we were attending at the time brought up a concept called living in the gap. It was postulated by a black Pastor from the South – unfortunately I don’t remember his name at this point. But the idea behind it stuck with me. It goes like this. There’s a place we are at, and the place we want to be, as individuals, and as a society. We are always trying to bridge the distance from one to the other, but often it’s a project that will take more than … Read more

As any fan of the normie-turned-outlandish comedy Community will know, the “Darkest Timeline” is a reference to the show’s Remedial Chaos Theory episode, which expanded on an idea from the original Star Trek series, about an alternate timeline where all the main characters were evil versions of their usual selves. It’s hard not to feel like we are in our own version of the Darkest Timeline, as we find ourselves mired down in an unnecessary war in the Middle East, facing rising prices at home, beset by AI and data centers foisted upon us by our corporate masters, assaulted daily … Read more

Things have shifted. My regular readers will know that my life has changed significantly in the last three months. In addition to our own business, my writing, and the Sacramento Book festival, I’ve added two new things to the mix. Moving to a new place, which was exponentially harder than I thought it would be and still isn’t really over a month and a half later, and managing the Nebula Awards/Nebula Con. Each of these things is like a full-time job, and I am struggling to adjust. * deep breath * I am adjusting. I recently likened it to a … Read more