Monthly Archives: June 2011

Brian’s Book of Bastards

Before opening The Book Of Ancient Bastards, I’d thought there was only one Cleopatra. Au contraire, there were dozens of ’em, reigning throughout the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt. And, as author Brian Thornton so well illustrates, each new Cleo seemed a little more evil than last. Continue reading

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A Rave Review!

I may not have won the grand prize, but my entry in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association annual literary contest garnered some raves from one of the judges. Continue reading

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Hopp and Woods

My son called from college and told me he’d been using a computerized method for analyzing proteins in his biochemistry class, and it turned out to be a method I’d created once upon a time. Continue reading

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