If you live around here, today is that day to go vote for the school budgets. Go vote.

There's a Gary Wolfe review of all three year's best sf annuals, the Dozois, ours, and the Silverberg/Haber in the new Locus. He says our Year's Best SF 8 is the most unaffectedly entertaining of the three annuals.

I have just discovered Howard Gardner's notion of Naturalist intelligence. I find it striking, because I look at the description and that's my son Peter.

Taking Peter to the pool yesterday, in the car the remaked that the bird overhead must be a hawk because of the way it circled. As I was getting the baby out of the car, he crouched down on the ground and said , "Look at all these mites. I wonder what kind they are." I didn't bend down because I was carrying the baby and the pool stuff. We crossed the parking lot, stopping briefly for a tiny anthill and streams of tiny ants. I've had to learn a lot about nature to keep up.