Meandering Monday about My Return to Mars

So, everyone reading this (as many as 100+ of you) knows that I want to go to Mars. I’ve been dreaming about it since the 70’s. Back then, having watched Neil Armstrong and his fellows walking on the moon on live (slightly delayed) television, it seemed obvious that I could make it there. Surely we’d … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Spreading Life

Like we all know, pieces of SCIENCE FICTION somehow make their way into reality, and – in our rapidly changing world – at a faster and faster pace. The teaser in my emailed newsletter (The Download) from MIT Technology Review said something about beaming life through space . Naturally, this brought images to my mind of the … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Inspiring Hope

This week, while Meandering Monday about the Fickleness of Fantasies  , I once again raised the specter of me going to Mars. I have become inspired by a lengthy blog post that someone shared with me (because among the many odd topics I yammer on about while he’s trying to work, Mars is often in … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Are We There Yet?

When I was growing up, our country went to the moon (actually, we took the rest of the world with us.) I was twelve years old when I watched Neil Armstrong first take that “one small step for (a) man”, and the last mission finished up just before my sixteenth birthday. I had no reason … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: We Need to be Led to MARS

**There are references in this posting to the MARS mini-series. I am going to do my best to avoid spoilers (the fact is, I haven’t finished the last episode myself), but one man’s spoiler is another’s old news. Over the holidays I recorded the NatGeo series MARS; this is a dramatized hypothetical mission to put … Continue reading →

“L-O-V-E Among the Stars” Now Available on Preorder

“L-O-V-E Among the Stars” can now be preordered A space traveler wakes too soon, and must leave the woman of his dreams to the ministrations of another, less-human caretaker. “L-O-V-E Among the Stars” is a speculative fiction of (with hints of a pop standard.) The release date is November 18th, and you can preorder now at … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: Mars on the Cheap

(I’m sorry – I know it probably seems that I obsess about going to The Red Planet. I do. I know there are so many more extraordinary things I could be thinking about. But Mars is SO DOABLE. After spending my youth watching our Astronauts make multiple trips to the Moon, I saw no reason … Continue reading →