by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 26, 2022 | Blog
I keep seeing Tweets about how voting doesn’t matter. Voting doesn’t cut it. What’s the point? Look, the system is rigged, no doubt about that, allowing for minority rule, but it can be overcome with sheer numbers & there are more of us than there are of them. And I never see a suggestion about what to do in lieu of voting. So, what’s the alternative? Guns? Blood in the streets? Stars forbid we end up there, and there is still a chance to avoid that outcome —...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 30, 2022 | Blog
So for months I have been inundated by these emails through my website with random people offering to up the traffic to my site. (yeah, I know I’ve been terrible about updating this site, all the other social media is eating me alive) Anyway, they all have this little “What’s Up?” tag so I have taken to just deleting them as spam. And then today I actually looked at one of them and it turned out to be an actual question. So if anyone has sent me an email and I...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 18, 2022 | Blog
Hi, Folks, We really, really wanted to have this book come out in the spring, but life has a way of intruding. While I finished and delivered the book we’ve had struggles with Covid and other issues that have left the publisher upon occasion a bit short staffed. Which has meant a delay in the editing process. So while it is painful for all of us the decision was made not to rush this essential step in producing a book we can all be proud of, and you will all enjoy reading, so the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Mar 4, 2022 | Blog
I was answering a question from my friend Juhan over on Facebook, and realized it was worth putting up here too. He asked how these events in Ukraine affect me as a writer. And here was my answer. It has made me ever more aware of the cost of war. Yes, on the soldiers who fight, but especially on the innocents — civilians in particular, especially the children, and yes, these families beloved pets. If you are fleeing for your life what do you do about your pets? Abandon them? Try to take...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 17, 2022 | Blog
As one ages this becomes a depressingly more common activity. Writing up your memories of a friend and colleague who has passed away. It is my sad task to have to do it again. It took me a long time to process this one. I think the suddenness of the loss of John Jos Miller knocked me back for days. And John’s passing sent me right back to thinking about how we lost Victor Milan just a few years ago because I first met John and Gail when Vic invited them to join our role playing group. John...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 25, 2021 | Blog
Forgive me for the long absence. Life has been challenging and I tend to spend more time on Facebook and Twitter than minding this blog. But I wanted to post today. I hope all of you are safe, warm and secure surrounded by people who love and care for you. I know this has been another hard year, but things are better. Thanks to brilliant scientists we have vaccines and medicines that hold so much promise even beyond Covid. I know climate change is a true threat, but now more and more people,...
