It’s been a long and strange couple of weeks here. Lisa is still progressing with her foot, and work has been quite a hog. Time is drawing down there though, and I’m finding that in an odd twist of fact, it’s actually quite easy to say “I’ll have lots of time to write in a […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
Closer to the Endgame
Okay, I admit it, I’m sore. This weekend marked Lisa’s first trips back to the health club. We’re getting closer to the endgame with Lisa and her surgery, and this weekend represented her first trips back to the health club. We went both Saturday and Sunday–the first day she mostly hung out on the elliptical, […]
Read More ...Roger Would Have Loved It
“I forgot Roger Ebert died,” Lisa said Saturday night. “I think I’m going to cry.” We had just gotten back from seeing Gravity at the IMAX 3D theater up in Indy, and we were beginning our traditional pass at reading reviews–something we always do after seeing a film. It’s been quite a while since our […]
Read More ...The Present
“I hear you are an F1 fan?” I was not expecting this question at this time. We were, after all, at my daughter’s first signing, and she was seated before a stack of her books. She had read the prologue and first chapter of Singer, and there was lots of various talk going on. People […]
Read More ...Catching Up
Yes, it’s been a long week filled with work and catching back up after four days in Detroit. I’ll deal with the present tomorrow–promise. And, yes, it’s worth it. Hehehehe… # On the review front, here’s a very nice comment on my short story “Bugs.” TPI has seemed to be a bit of a stern […]
Read More ...Wait For It
Sometimes the world is a wondrous place. Sometimes it reaches out and gives you presents. This weekend was one of those times. I’ll leave you hanging on the actual present until tomorrow, because I’m like that, I guess, but mostly because I want to get a picture of it to do it up right. Suffice […]
Read More ...Strange Times
This is a very strange time at work. The news of my impending move away from the corporate world and into the life of a freelance writer is pretty much searching it’s happy place. This means that people are stopping me in the hallways, or pausing in the quiet moments before and after meetings. They […]
Read More ...Holy Anglo, Batman! There’s a World Outside Gotham!
The world is getting bigger. By that I mean, of course, that the ability we have as people to learn more and understand more about other people of other cultures and other mindsets is growing massively more prevalent every year. Perhaps this is the root of so much of our polarization in the US and […]
Read More ...Mar Pacifico
Interesting piece in this month’s Clarkesworld. “Mar Pacifico” is a short story by Greg Mellor that manages to be both a dystopian warning beacon and optimistic at the same time. I read it early yesterday, and have been thinking about it on and off for the last 24 hours. That’s a good thing, of course. […]
Read More ...Milestone
So, we’re going on nine weeks from Lisa’s surgery, and she’s making progress every day. She’s moved from boots to shoes and from two crutches to one. And today she’s taken several steps without a crutch at all. In fact, we took a bit of a walk down the street when we got home tonight, […]
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