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August 28, 2014
Home is the sailor
And I’m home, as well. Time goes too quickly these days, so I want to write a little about my recent trip to the UK (soon to be only a […]
READ MOREJuly 4, 2014
Happy 4th
When I was a child, before my family imploded, my father used to take us for a walk on the 4th and retell the story of the Revolution. We would […]
READ MOREMay 2, 2014
Moving On
American impatience, American optimism, all seem summed in the phrase, “Move on.” We have a death or another greater or lesser loss and we’re adjured to get over it, to […]
READ MOREDecember 22, 2013
Just gimme love
She was 21, he was 24, they’d known each other for three months when they decided to get married. They were both graduate students in bacteriology at Iowa State College […]
READ MORENovember 29, 2013
Agreeing with O’Reilly and Palin about the War on Christmas
And it came to pass that the Divine Justice heard that war was being waged on Christmas. Humans waged innumerable wars. They all called on the Holy One to support […]
READ MOREAugust 8, 2013
ARC Giveaway
We’re holding a drawing to give away two advance copies of Critical Mass. To enter, simply send an email to vicontests@mindspring.com Critical Mass is partly set in Vienna during Lotty […]
READ MOREJuly 20, 2013
Girls in the Game: We Want to Hear About Women Athletes
I love Girls in the Game. Through my Sara & Two C-Dogs Foundation I support about ten programs, which range from sending kids to Montana to dig for dinosaurs, through […]
READ MOREJune 3, 2013
Buy Me Some Peanuts…
Everyone knows that V I Warshawski is a Cubs fan, but it’s been a while since she went to the ballpark. For a book I’ve just started writing, I’m imagining […]
READ MOREApril 28, 2013
Critical Mass
Here’s the synopsis of VI’s next adventure Vienna in the 1930’s was both an exciting and a terrifying place to be a woman doing physics. Exciting because the Institute for […]
READ MOREMarch 25, 2013
Passover
It’s bleak in Chicago, hard to believe that Passover starts at sundown tonight. It’s a holiday like Easter that should serve as spring’s harbinger. When I was a child, it […]
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