If there are lines of force in the Pabloverse, I am convinced that – for the moment – Port Townsend is where they converge at a magnetic pole. The delightful, […]

I make it all the way to the threshold before freaking out. Past the cornfields, the classic New England barns and farm stands hawking apples and fresh sweet corn. It’s […]

I have so few memories of those pivotal, ostensibly memorable rites of passage: losing my first tooth, getting my drivers license, heading off to college. Movies always show the family […]

I should clarify, right up front, that (to some, limited, easily rationalize extent) these are my peeps. These are the geeks, the nerds, the folks who didn’t quite fit in […]

It feels like Bright Lights, Big City with a Latin twist: the clock has turned somewhere past midnight and the most pressing and insoluble question in my mind is whether […]

I’m supposed to write about Comic-Con, right? Because it’s a crazy wild gathering of the most over-the-top geeks and nerds on the planet, and in my own quiet way, I’m […]

According to my logbook, it’s been almost nine years since I was last here. The typical turn of a phrase would be that I’d forgotten how much I liked San […]