“So Kelly, how was your weekend?” Glad you asked! Had the pleasure of spending the weekend at a small sci-fi con in Lebanon, TN called ConFinement, organized by Michael Z. Williamson and Jessica Schlenker. Had a great time, participated in a few panels, told a few outrageous stories, and autographed a bunch of books. The con was obviously a labor ...

It started as a challenge from the Three Moms of the Apocalypse at MarsCon 2023: Take an assigned AI image, and write a 50-word story on it. It’s an intriguing concept, and one that will be repeated for future sci-fi/fantasy cons.I didn’t make the cut for this one, but that’s okay. That just means that my readers will get to ...

Many of you may have read of the kerfluffle over the recent edits of Roald Dahl’s books by his publisher, Puffin Books. Puffin is an imprint of Penguin/Random House. If you haven’t, I’ll boil it down for you. Puffin, in an effort to keep his books sterile and flavorless inclusive to modern readers, hired a bunch of humorless scolds and ...

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Went through the old Blog Roll today, and deleted over 200 defunct blogs. Most are not blogging any more, a few I keep up with in meatspace or on social media.More than a few are dead, and for some of them… I just can’t. Deleting their link would be saying goodbye, and I’m not ready to do that. In the ...

The challenge: Write a story of 50 words based on a picture. It’s harder than you think. He didn’t ask for cartilaginous ass plates, but God made him a warrior. When a tunnel rat twerks an enemy to death with those plates, he tells himself he did it to protect the other wombats in his unit and soldiers on. He’s ...

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*taps microphone*Is this thing on?For you blog readers, the origin story of SumDood is now a novel!Introducing, “Kindred: Book 1 of the SumDood Chronicles.”Should be available on Kindle within the next couple of days, and in paperback and hardcover by January 1, 2023. Until then, here’s a teaser!********** I suppose if I am to tell you my tale, first you ...

New article up on Medscape:Etiam non silentium. Free to read, but you may have to create a Medscape account if you don’t already have one.

EMS peeps, help a doctoral researcher with a study on stress levels in paramedics, now expanded to include COVID-19 related stress. Our profession lives and dies on research, folks. If we don’t participate in it, we can never take ownership of our profession. The Impact of COVID-19 on First Responders and Family

  Today is Memorial Day. Normally, most of us would have spent the weekend grilling burgers and visiting with relatives, or lounging on a beach somewhere, or watching a baseball game in an opulent stadium, overpriced beer and hot dog in hand, but the coronavirus pandemic probably threw a wrench into those plans. But lets not forget the meaning of ...

From my EMS1 column: When you’re new and inexperienced, it’s difficult to separate good practices from bad, and you’re particularly susceptible to believing it when some lazy burnout proclaims, “There’s the way it’s done in class, kid, and there’s the way it’s done on the street.” As author Stewart Stafford puts it, “Separate text from context and all that remains ...

Play Tiger King, the Home Game on EMS1.

… on Medical EDC for Shooting Illustrated.

I took a break from submitting college homework, conference proposals and article submissions today for a little Me Time. Just a short session at the range, total of 120 rounds fired. I worked on half of each box of ammo was spent shooting weak hand-only.In other news, I need to practice more on WHO shooting. I sucked. First up was ...