My awesome editor has crawled out from the pile of life and deadlines and sent me the line edits that I have been patiently waiting for. It has been a long wait for them, but I needed the break. Anyway. This means that Vanished is put aside for the next week or so while I […]
Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA took this photograph on June 21, 2016, from the International Space Station, writing, “A spectacular rise of the full moon just before sunset while flying over western China.” via NASA http://ift.tt/28K2lJR
Earlier today I had the annual evaluation meeting with the chief nurse who is technically my boss. It went fine. Until the end when he asked if did any exercised. I told him I did yoga at home. He told me I should walk more. I wasn’t annoyed when I left the meeting, but […]
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 47 crew members Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Kopra, Peake, and Malenchenko are returning after six months onboard the International Space Station. […]
I have been writing a lot this weekend. So far I am at 2100 words. Which might not sound like a lot, but considering that I have been writing 200-500 words per day for the last month or so, writing 2000 words in two days is a lot. It would have been a lot even […]
With 14 electric motors turning propellers and all of them integrated into a uniquely-designed wing, NASA will test new propulsion technology using an experimental airplane now designated the X-57 and nicknamed “Maxwell.” This concept image illustrates NASA’s X-57 plane in flight. via NASA http://ift.tt/1sJCEBk
In case you don’t know, I can be a bit absentminded. I see things I want to go at, and then forget about it. ( I am tiny bit better when it comes to seeing stuff others might like.) That is what happened this spring. I remembered in May that Fantastika was this weekend. And […]
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured a series of photos for this composite image of the setting sun reflected by the ocean. via NASA http://ift.tt/28Hx1Ev
Normally, I write 1000 words per day when I am not working. Not this time. This time, I am writing 500 words per day. And that is ok. Because every story is different. So stories are easy to write, the words just flow. Some stories isn’t. This stories is one of the latter. Oh, […]
Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo craft is released from the International Space Station in this June 14, 2016, photograph by ESA astronaut Tim Peake. Once Cygnus reached a safe distance, ground controllers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center initiated the sequence for an experiment design to better understand how fire spreads in a microgravity environment. via NASA […]