Fiction and Fancy

Under Construction

So, as you may or may not have noticed, ye olde website is undergoing a bit of a change. I’ve imported all of the old posts to the new domain, but that means some links or other things may have broken in the process. I’ll be fixing these problems as I unearth them,...
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Challenger Deep

I was looking at some historical speeches today and I happened to catch one I’d never heard before, but has quite a lot of childhood emotion wrapped up in it for me: Reagan’s speech following the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle. It’s striking to...
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Dia de los Reyes

I don’t often reminisce about my childhood in this space or anywhere else. As I said in my last post about meeting Buzz Aldrin much of my childhood is a murky place and there are few things I remember with anything like clarity. One thing I do remember though, is...
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