I’m your host, Ginger. I used to blog about politics in the early oughts, in the days when we called it “war blogging”, several wars ago during the Bush II administration. Now I live in Dallas instead of Houston, I’m still interested in the doings in my city, county, state, and country, and I’m older and hopefully wiser. I’ve worked over the years as a clerk in a comic book and roleplaying game store, an assistant to an immigration lawyer, and a tech writer. My degree is in history, and the topic of my master’s thesis was the development of the entail from the maritagium under English common law. Agewise I’m at the top end of Generation X, but just because I’m getting older doesn’t mean I have to ossify.
I’ve been writing weekly dispatches for my friend Chuck’s blog for a couple of years now after a while of sending him stories from our local news that I thought needed covering. Now that’s not enough, so I’m starting to blog again.
What I expect you’ll find here: news and opinions, with a particular focus on the Metroplex, but not excluding other parts of the state, particularly Houston and Austin, where I have also lived; some history, some feminism, some disability- and health-related news, some music, some reviews of media I’m interested in, and always some random posts that fit in none of the above categories.
When I’m not blogging, I read a lot of books, go to concerts, eat some fine food, and play tabletop roleplaying games. All of this happens with the support of a long-suffering spouse and three cats: Mr Alfonso, Miss Berry, and Mr Sid.
(The title is a quote from The Courts of Chaos, by Roger Zelazny.)