Kathryn Cramer

ICFA Photos

I've posted our photos from ICFA (The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts) on Flickr.

Critic Guest of Honor at Confluence 2008

I am pleased to report that next summer, I will be the P. Schuyler Miller Critic Guest of Honor at Confluence 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA.

(The following summer, my husband, David Hartwell, will be the Editor Guest of Honor at the Worldcon in Montreal.)

Archon & Confluence pix & more!

I've posted our photos from Confluence in Pittsburgh, PA and from Archon/Nasfic in Collinsville, Illinois as well as photos from visiting earthworks at Newark, OH and at Cahokia in Collinsville.  Enjoy.

As usual, we are behind on captioning.

Our Readercon Pix Are Up

Our photos from Readercon are up. As usual, we haven't captioned most of them.

YouthCan 2007

Monday, I took my son Peter to YouthCan 2007, a conference for kids on helping the environment through technology held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Most of the people attending were part of school groups, some from as far away as Argentina, Russia, and Iran, though most from the US. In all, attendance was about a thousand.

A couple of years ago, I tried to arrange for a delegation from my son's school to attend, but in our district there were too many bureaucratic obstacles, and so I failed. This year, when I received a reminder of the event via email, on whim I decided that Peter and I would attend.

I decided to drive in rather than take MetroNorth from Pleasantville, since once you get off MetroNorth it is a bit cumbersome to get -- via public transportation -- from Grand Central Station to the museum. We left home about 8:30 AM and got a nice parking space in the museum parking garage (for which I later paid a hefty sum: $43).

(I had arranged for a babysitter for my daughter in in the afternoon [$30-something], and for the Mother Hen bus service [$30] to get her from pre-school and take her there, so Peter and I had as much time as we needed. Museum admission was free with the event, but I had already run up over a $100 tab as soon as I set the plan in motion. And Linda Hirshman wonders in a New York Times OpEd piece wonders at the struggle of moms rejoining the work-force, or meditates on our competing obligations; or something. It cost a hundred bucks to spend the day with one child in NYC without the other. In my utopia, this would be cheaper.)

We arrived before opening ceremonies began; opening and closing ceremonies were held in the Hall of Ocean Life -- with the full scale model of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling -- a great venue for any event. The room full of kids and chaperons was better behaved than one might have expected as we waited for the rest to arrive because there was so much to look at just in that one room.

Andrew Revkin, a science writer for The New York Times and author of the kids' book about global warming, The North Pole Was Here, gave what was essentially the keynote speech. He made the interesting point that he realized that after writing 300 NYT articles, the people he should have been writing to were kids, since the decisions affecting our current climate are already made and that the decisions made now and in the near future most affect those under 19. I would have liked to see his one-hour presentation on his trip to the North Pole, but I had Peter signed up for something else, and so just bought a copy of his book to read later.

There were three program slots to sign up for. Our first was EcoMedia, held by The Bronx River Art Center:

Become educated about the Bronx River environment through several student multimedia approaches with different tools involving ecoTV, ecoGames, ecoWeb, ecoSound, and ecoPhoto.  See an amazing project unravel before your eyes as students in this ecological workshop, translate ideas like invasive species or watershed physics.

This was my first exposure to 13-year-olds giving software demos. I suppressed the impulse to try to help. It made the biggest impression of all on my 9-year-old son, who had seen mommy do many or all of the things the kids were showing him how to do, but having kids show him was different.

The next session we went to was held by third graders from Miami Country Day School and consisted of a series of presentations by groups of third graders on solutions to the problem of world hunger.

How much land is actually useful for agricultural purposes? Find out and learn about a more effective way to grow crops in many of the poor regions of the world. Be ready to take home all you need to make your own container garden. Make up a recipe with organic herbs flown fresh from our school garden for your enjoyment! This workshop is hands-on, nose-on, and mouth-on.

The kids were doing a splendid job. But the room was hot and crowded (too small for the number of people there) so we slipped off for lunch before the end.

In the cafe, we found the group who had given the ecoMedia presentation, so we sat with them when we ate our lunch.

The third session we attended was Guerrilla Gardening, held by sixth graders from the Salk School of Science in New York City.

Save the plants and save the world! Learn how you and/or your school can create amazing indoor gardens while recycling and reusing your kitchen refuse. Plant beans, corn, potatoes, ginger, and much more. Leave with a head start on your own garden!

The students collectively taught a lesson that they might have had at school with their teacher. We drew sketches of various kinds of seeds found in many kitchens (kidney beans, bird seed, popping corn, etc.) then we made planters for them out of clear egg cartons and each came home set up to sprout the seeds on our windowsills.

After that, we attended the lively closing ceremonies in which there was some moderated discussion of what we had gotten out of the day. One of the teenagers attending had submitted a compelling short essay that was read out loud.

After the official conference was over, we paid a visit to the Discovery Room, one of Peter's favorite parts of the museum. He looked at live grubs and butterfly wings under the microscope. We also spent a while in the museum's enormous gift shop.

After a snack in the museum's main dining room, we went up to the top floor and saw the Audubon exhibit and the dinosaur skeletons. we saw a few more exhibits and then headed home.

For next year, when Peter will be in middle school, I think I'll try again to get a school delegation together to give a presentation.

Amazing photograph of Patrick Nielsen Hayden with both eyes open, looking at the camera!

Tor Books editor and blogger Patrick Nielsen Hayden is notoriously difficult to photograph, so I thought I'd share this photo with you which David took at ComicCon in Manhattan the other day.

Also shown: Brian Vaughn and Kay McCauley.

Kathryn Cramer complains about conventions and childcare, part 463

It says a lot about American conventions and conferences of all types that Harry Brighouse had to write this sentence:

The topic was Rethinking Gender Egalitarianism, and I was leaving my wife at home much of the weekend with a 4-week-old baby and the girls.

There was aparently much discussion of the issue of society & childcare which followed once he'd arrived at the conference. But, speaking as a wife who these days frequently stays home from events she would have preferred to have attended, I do wonder which voices in this discussion did not show up to be heard because the problem is not adequately addressed by our cultures' public gatherings.

Boskone 2007 Pix

We have posted some of our Boskone photos on Flickr. We'll post more later.

(Meanwhile, I have come down with something involving red spots which I caught from my daughter, and so am missing my afternoon panel.)

My Philcon Pix Are Up!

My Philcon pix are  up on Flickr. Enjoy!

Nathan Lilly on the blogging panel.

Capclave Pix

I've got photos from Capclave up on Flickr.

Xtreme Ruffles at Albacon

Albacon is being held in an Albany, NY hotel that is also hosting a pagent for little girls. So girls in Xtreme Ruffles and pancake makeup are occasionally visible from the Albacon function areas. My three-year old daughter caught sight of some of the pagent proceedings and exclaimed that she wanted to go to "the face-painting."

Our Favorite Pix from WorldCon

John Hertz and Cheryl Morgan: which Fan Writer will survive?

Kathryn Cramer & Mari Kotani

Liza Trombi

Pat Cadigan & Gardner Dozois

Rudy Rucker & Paul Williams

Disney Survivors: Kathryn Cramer & Sheila Williams

John Scalzi in the new Campbell Award tiarra.

Nice Shirt!

Scott Dennis, on behalf of the Clothiers Guild, presented my husband, David Hartwell, with this shirt, commemorating his Hugo win for Best Editor.

And here is David on an editing panel with his Hugo a little earlier in the day.

Sheila Williams, David Hartwell, & Ellen Datlow

Where Is the Time Machine When We Need It?

WARNING: SCIENCE FICTION FIELD IN-JOKE AHEAD.

What I would like to advise Connie Willis to say when touched inappropriately during the Hugo Awards ceremony: Go away little f*ck!

Cory Doctorow & his MacBook

I tried to get Rudy Rucker to take this shot of Cory Doctorow yesterday, after the "Bloggers as Public Intellectuals" panel at the WorldCon (featuring, in addition to Cory, Kevin Drum, Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden, MaryAnn Johanson, & Phil Plait) and but Rudy didn't do it. So I took the shot myself today.

There is a better version of this to be had, but I thought it was interesting to pose.

Here's a fuzzy shot of yesterday's panel I took with my cell phone:

Trinoc*con Photos & Others

I've got a bunch of photos up on Flickr from Trinoc*con where David was Toastmaster.

Dan Reid & Gene Wolfe.

John Kessel, Kathryn Cramer, & Keith Farrell.

But wait, there's more! Many more pix from North Carolina!

Me & Chimney Rock.

David & Peter at Biltmore.

Elizabeth with her daddy in the gardens a Biltmore.

The Sweetest Klingon

I think my favorite costume seen at Marcon is T'ffany, a valley-girl Klingon:

I continue to update my Marcon Flickr photoset.

Amazing Marcon Pix!

I've posted to Flickr our photos so far from Marcon in Columbus, Ohio, where my husband, David Hartwell, is the Editor Guest of Honor. I'll be updating the photoset as I take more.

Not Going to WFC

A couple of people have asked whether I'm attending the World Fantasy Convention in Madison. Yes, my husband is heads the board of directors of the organization that oversees the convention from year to year, and yes, this year's theme, "The Architecture of Fantasy and Horror," would be a perfect venue for me, since in the 1980's I edited two anthologies of architectural horror, The Architecture of Fear, for which I won a World Fantasy Award, and Walls of Fear, for which I was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. But NO, I'm not going.

I would leave it at that, because of course with every convention there are some people who can attend and some who can't and many of those who can't can't for reasons that are not fair, like not having enough money. And certainly, over time, I've gotten to go to a lot of conventions. But I wanted to spin this out for you a little in terms of science fiction and its social policies and what happens specifically to women.

A while back I wrote a bit about the situation of childcare at conventions at which I was able to show up. I had great difficulty being able to attend the convention program because of the lack of childcare at conventions. While other people attended the program, I would usually be in the halls with my kids, no matter how interesting I might have found the goings on inside.

People took me seriously. In response to may complaints, some changes were made. Not enough, but some. I had an impact.

But now, for the most part, I am not getting to those halls in the first place. One of our book contracts was not renewed and so money is tight. The Glasgow Worldcon had put me on the best batch of program items I had ever been assigned. But I had to cancel because the plane fares never came down to the level we could afford for a family of four. And back last fall, I had to eat a ticket to France for Utopiales because our family-member childcare for the trip fell through, and we couldn't afford to buy childcare on the open market in Westchester. (I haven't managed to get to Eurpore since Peter was born in 1997.) Between Utopiales and the Glasgow Worldcon, that's two trips to Europe cancelled in the past year.

And I'm not going to Madison. With my son in an elementary school that is very pushy about its attendance policies, we couldn't really bring him given the complexities of getting to Madison. Childcare for the weekend while I went out would be amazingly expensive here. We make $90,000/yr below the median income for our school district, so for the most part, I can't buy babysitting at market prices. (A sitter for an evening out costs about $15/hour around here, so I don't get out much.) The noose tightens, so I'll probably seeing less of people who expect to just see me around, if only in the halls though not in the panels or evening parties.

I would lay on you my grandmother's line, "I'm not complaining, but. . ." (When I was a kid I would always believe her: that she wasn't compaining, even though that line always prefaced a complaint.) But it would be a lie: I am complaining. But I'm telling you folks in the science fiction field about this not because I expect you to fix it for me, but because I'm sure I'm not the only woman you are losing access to over things like this.

David's WorldCon Photos

David put up an album of his WorldCon photos last night.

Paul Park, Roz Kaveny, & Charles Stross.

I hope to put up my un-WorldCon pix today.

By the way . . .

In case you're wondering why we haven't posted more photos of our Canadian travels, and of Westercon in particular, David accidentally spilled orange juice on our Powerbook on our last day in Canada so it is being professionally cleaned. When  we get it back, I can play more with the treaures on its harddrive.

This photo was taken at the Edith Cavell Glacier near Jasper in Alberta.

Reassurance

Folks from the UK sited (in good health) at Readercon so far: Graham Sleight (who was boarding his flight here about the time of the attacks), Farah Mendlesohn, and John Clute.

Eaton Conference

David and I will both be appearing at the Eaton Conference at the end of next week, which is being held at the Science Fiction Museum at Seattle Center:

UC Riverside Libraries and The Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame Team Up for Conference on Science Fiction

Eaton Conference to be Held May 5, 6 and 7 in Seattle in Connection with Science Fiction Hall of Fame Induction The University of California, Riverside Libraries, which house The J. Lloyd Eaton Collection, the world’s most extensive science fiction and fantasy collection, joins The Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame in Seattle to present "Inventing the 21st Century: Many Worlds, Many Histories" on May 5, 6 and 7 in Seattle. The conference will be held at the same time as the museum’s first ever Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday, May 6, which will honor film director Steven Spielberg, author Philip K. Dick, artist Chesley Bonestell and animator Ray Harryhausen. Eaton Conference attendees will have the opportunity to register before the general public. Speakers this year include Gregory Benford, Howard Hendrix, Joseph Miller, Eric Rabkin, George Slusser, Stanley Schmidt, Greg Bear, Eileen Gunn and Alan Shapiro, with David Hartwell delivering the Frank McConnell Memorial Lecture.

For full release, click here: http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1028

If you follow the link, there is a schedule of events. There are two versions of the schedule circulating, one in which David gives his keynote speech at the beginning of the conference; one in which he gives it at the end. I'm supposed to serve on a panel at some point, but so far panel descriptions are limited to the word "panel."

I've been to an Eaton conference or two before, and the material is much meatier than what you tend to get on panels at your average SF convention, so if you live in the Seattle area, be sure to attend.

Back from Spring

We arrived home from Florida night before last straight into a Noreaster. There was local flooding at JFK from record rainfall. There were these enormous puddles we had to cross with all out luggage in order to get to the parking lot. (The "record" rainfall was .69 inches. I can't imagine what it it like to get across those streets after a summer cloud burst.) Some luggage and Elizabeth's car seat fell into a deep puddle on the way to the car. So I had to donate my coat as a seat liner to separate her from the wetness. About halfway home, it must have soaked through because her cheerfulness deteriorated into a fullblown two-year-old tantrum because I wouldn't let her climb out of her car seat. Meanwhile, the car crawled slowly through a wide variety of appalling road conditions. I don't know how long our driver has been driving in snow, but the deepening snow and sleet on the road seemed to make him extremely nervous. Between that and Elizabeth howling in the back seat, I felt bad for him.

Carl, who had gone to San Francisco for part of the time we were in Florida, had a much harder time getting back. His flight into White Plains was scheduled to get in around eleven, but it was cancelled by air traffic control because a plane slid off the runway there. United flew in him into La Guardia instead. At 1 AM when he arrived, ground transporation had of course shut down. He did ultimately find a service that would drive him out here for the paltry sum of $125. The drive took 2 1/2 hours because of slippery road conditions. He got here at 4:30 AM. I saw his footprints in the snow at 6 when I got up, so I knew he'd managed t get here.

I spent a busy day yesterday coping with entropy: shovelling wet heavy snow out of the driveway; picking up the repaired snow thrower from Sears in Jefferson Valley (the driveway needed to be shovelled before the snow thrower could be retrieved!); taking our digital camera to the camera store for repair. Because of the snow, Peter's school had a two hour delay and Elizabeth's preschool was closed. Today is a school holiday (whatever happened to good old Easter vacation?) so then next day they go to school and I have quiet time to get things done is Monday.

Having been away for a little while, I find that I like the newly painted walls I worked on before I left even more than before. They somewhat make up for having to return to winter.

I read very few blogs while travelling, but I note this morning that Cheryl Morgan (seen via Mark Kelly) is chastising those who announce their Hugo nominations on their blogs before the full nominations list has been formally announced. Ahem. This household has assembled more Hugo nominations than most over a 20 year period and I don't think I've encountered this particular bit of etiquette before. Since, the nominations are all we ever get, I personally think it is appropriate for nominees to enjoy their nominations to the fullest. She explains her rationale:

Worldcons can’t always get in touch with every nominee easily. And sometimes people decline, necessitating an emergency email to the sixth-placed person. It really isn’t fair to go round bragging about your own nomination (or someone else’s) until everyone has been notified and accepted.

Anyone nervous enough to be concerned about the comparative haste with which various people have been notified of their nominations has a problem that cannot be solved by etiquette. She seems to be asking to give everyone exactly the same number of days of nominated glory. Or for those who should think about what an honor it is to be nominated to have sympathy for those who might actually win—or perhaps just for the favor of those knowing early not to increase the anxiety of those who earnestly hope but have not heard yet and will not know for sure until the final list is announced, perhaps without them. Who among us cannot be sympathetic to those feelings, but we ought not to follow the lead of the most anxious or most easily wounded, I should think.

Sudden Temporary Architecture of Chaotic Light

I had lots of lovely blogging planned for late last night when the kids were asleep, but our hotel's Wayport internet connection was a bit spotty overnight, so I'm going to rush through a bunch of material that I had planned to address in a more lesiurely fashion.

One fringe benefit of the net connection being down is that since I couldn't keep a good connection, I followed Rudy Rucker's excellent example and went out and did early morning yoga by the pool. I picked my spot next to the whirlpool, since it was a little chilly out. Just as I finished up, the first rays of the rising sun came in through the palm fronds illuminating the rising steam, creating a sudden temporary architecture of chaotic light: vectors of golden light textured by the steam's vortecies. (I couldn't resist using that as a title.) For those at ICFA who would like to try seeing this tomorrow, it happened at about 6:45-6:50 AM.

OK. Quick run through of what I want to cover:

First of all, my dad, John Cramer, has some new physics stuff in the news. I was waiting for a few free moments to carefully write this up so you would think I knew what I was talking about, but this is not to be in the immediate Floridian future, so here is the link:

American Institute of Physics: A Puzzling Signal in RHIC Experiments:

A puzzling signal in RHIC experiments has now been explained by two researchers as evidence for a primordial state of nuclear matter believed to have accompanied a quark-gluon plasma or similarly exotic matter in the early universe. Colliding two beams of gold nuclei at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, physicists have been striving to make the quark-gluon plasma, a primordial soup of matter in which quarks and gluons circulate freely.

However, the collision fireball has been smaller and shorter-lived than expected, according to two RHIC collaborations (STAR and PHENIX) of pions (the lightest form of quark-antiquark pairs) coming out of the fireball. The collaborations employ the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss method, originally used in astronomy to measure the size of stars. In the subatomic equivalent, spatially separated detectors record pairs of pions emerging from the collision to estimate the size of the fireball.

Now an experimentalist and a theorist, both from the University of Washington, John G. Cramer (206-543-9194, cramer@phys.washington.edu) and Gerald A. Miller (206-543-2995, miller@phys.washington.edu), have teamed up for the first time to propose a solution to this puzzle. Reporting independently of the RHIC collaborations, they take into account the fact that the low-energy pions produced inside the fireball act more like waves than classical, billiard-ball-like particles; the pions' relatively long wavelengths tend to overlap with other particles in the crowded fireball environment.

This new quantum-mechanical analysis leads the researchers to conclude that a primordial phenomenon has taken place inside the hot, dense RHIC fireballs. According to Miller and Cramer, the strong force is so powerful that the pions are overcome by the attractive forces exerted by neighboring quarks and anti-quarks. As a result, the pions act as nearly massless particles inside the medium.

Secondly, ICFA Guest of Honor Rudy Rucker has much of the material he's been presenting here up on his web site: His speech from lunch, "Seek the Gnarl" and the PowerPoint slides from his his science talk.

I didn't get to see the luncheon speech, but really enjoyed the science talk. The PowerPoint slides don't give you the full sense of the experience, since they don't include such things as Rudy projecting fractal patterns onto his skin or using a gnarly stick as a pointer. A good time was had by all.

Also, Rudy's blog has great stuff about his recent trip trip to Palau including an interesting discussion of his experiences swimming with jelly fish.

Finally, we have more pictures to put up in my ICFA photo album, but they'll have to wait until later today.

Camera Adventures

No sooner did I set up an ICFA online photo album, but our digital camera broke: the pictures it takes now all come out black. I spent a little time in the afternoon trying to figure out what to do about this, and concluded that the answer was I should borrow another and plan to take our in for repair when we return home. So Patrick O'Leary has lent me his digital camera which has a very silly feature that ours lacked. It can take 16 rapid shots one after another and then make them into a 4 X 4 photo collage like this one.

I did post about 17 pictures we took before the camera broke. I'll post what I can after this.

ICFA is starting

The ICFA is beginning to get into swing and I should have conference photos up tonight or tomorrow morning. (I'm also thinking of writing up restarant recommendations and suggestions for excursions.)

Meanwhile, I've been doing a trip photo album for Peter which is quite nice: Peter's Florida Adventure [link fixed].

Escape

Yesterday when I got up it was snowing cats & dogs. We had to dig ourselves out of five inches of snow to get out of the driveway. But we have escaped. This is the view from our hotelroom window when I woke up this morning. Note the plam trees in the foreground and the absence of clouds.

We are in Ft. Lauderdale and the weather forecast is for sunny days with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s and 70s for the whole time we're here. (It might rain Thursday night.) Soon our friends will begin to arrive for the ICFA. Looks like a good time will be had by all.

David's Shevacon Pictures

I have posted an album of David Hartwell's photos from Shevacon in Roanoke, Virginia. (David went; I stayed home with the kids.)

David came back via La Guardia (LGA) Sunday. His bags enjoyed a four day holiday in London (at LGW, i. e., London, Gatwick) courtesy of US Airways on their way home. It took extreme patience and the intervention of Tor's travel agent and American Express to pursuade US Airways to bring the bags home.

Enjoy the pictures,

Urban Tapestry Kids' Concert

I've made a separate photo album for the Urban Tapestry Kids' Concert at Boskone.

More Boskone Photos

I've uploaded a lot more Boskone photos. So far, my favorite is this shot of Linux God Eric Raymond:

Boskone Photos

I've created a Boskone 2005 photo album and uploaded some pictures David took last night. I'll add more as we take them.

George R. R. Martin & Tony Lewis

Boskone contact info

Anyone needing to contact me at Boskone should use my panix account (kec at panix dot com). Our Powerbook is too old to use a browser that will access my Gmail account. But I am readin mail sent to panix.

Boskone?

We're supposed to attend Boskone this weekend. David is definitely going, since we have a dealer's table.

Given that both kids are still sick, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to make it. I am scheduled to be on the program.

UPDATE: OK. I'll be there. (I may not have much of a voice though.)

Here's where to find me: First of all, we have a dealer's table, so David will be in plain sight much of the time. Second, here is my schedule:

Saturday 10:00 am Republic B: A Child Shall Lead Them: Children as SF Protagonists

How well do we avoid building kids who are just miniature adults? Is the advantage of worldbuilding for the reader as the child learns his own environment balanced by the problem of giving him any movement beyond the parental orbit? Are Paul Atriedes and Thorby Baslim too competent? Does Hermione Granger know too much? Can kids just be kids and still make a good story?
Michael A. Burstein, Orson Scott Card, Bruce Coville (m), Kathryn Cramer

Saturday 12:00 noon Republic B: Fiction for Free-Range Children

What's wrong with most of the so-called "YA science fiction" published in the past twenty years? Consider the thesis that modern YA sf is mostly not science fiction. It isn't interested in kids going out, exploring the galaxy, and staying out there to change the universe. Instead, it wants children to go out into the galaxy, discover it's a really scary place, learn some lessons and come home to apply those lessons to home and family. Instead of socializing children to move outwards, these stories are socialising children to come home.

Orson Scott Card, Kathryn Cramer, Farah Mendlesohn (m), Jane Yolen

Saturday 1:00 pm Clarendon: Great SF Cover Art

We'll address both the general and the specific. In general, what makes for great cover art? Is it great illustration (and thus must it be realistic) or is it great creativity? (And why have abstracts like those of Richard Powers and Paul Lehr gone out of fashion?) The specific: Genre artists may receive recognition for a year's — or a lifetime's — achievement, but rarely for specific works. Let's remedy that right here. Each rave may include what made a favorite not only great art, but also a great cover for that book. Visual aids greatly encouraged.

Kathryn Cramer, Bob Eggleton, Irene Gallo, Joe Siclari (m)

Sunday 2:00 pm Hampton: The Latest in Short SF

Is short science fiction becoming more literary? What styles and trends dominate today's magazines? Whose short fiction should be sought out? What makes a successful short science fiction story vs. fantasy story vs. horror story? And is anyone reading short fiction anymore?

Kathryn Cramer (m), Gavin Grant, David G. Hartwell, Kelly Link

Sunday Morning

So here we are on Sunday morning at Confusion in Troy, Michigan. One must step carefully when walking through the hotel room because of a few extra people in sleeping bags. (My brother and his kids stayed over because of the snow storm.) We are supposed to fly home today, but the East Coast is having a blizzard today (the same storm that passed through here yesterday), so the prospects for our departure are a little dubious.