Showing posts with label ChessieCon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ChessieCon. Show all posts
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy American Thanksgiving! It's been our custom for many years -- aside from the COVID-19 hiatus -- to attend Chessiecon (formerly D...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Traditions

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has trad...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

ChessieCon

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Over Thanksgiving weekend this year, ChessieCon held its first live convention since 2019. The hiatus probably contributed to the low attend...
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy American Thanksgiving! It's the only day of the year when we roast a whole turkey and make mashed potatoes. (Mashed potatoes are m...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

ChessieCon 2021

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For the second year in a row, the Baltimore-area ChessieCon was held online instead of in person. (Not long before the scheduled date, we lo...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving Day

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Happy American Thanksgiving! I recently watched a fascinating episode of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS, about the Pilgrims' early years i...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

Catastrophes and Fiction Writing

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The annual ChessieCon was held virtually this past weekend. One session explored how catastrophic events influence literature. The panelists...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it today! This will be the first Thanksgiving weekend since sometime in the 1990s when we won'...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

ChessieCon 2018

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As we do every year at Thanksgiving, my husband, our youngest son, and I spent the weekend at ChessieCon (formerly Darkover), just north of ...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Is the Internet Revolutionary?

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses whether the Internet qualifies as "revolutionary"...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

ChessieCon 2017

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With my husband and youngest son, as usual, I spent the weekend after Thanksgiving at ChessieCon (formerly Darkover). Guest of Honor was Ada...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving

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Happy U.S. Thanksgiving! This weekend, as usual, we'll be attending Chessiecon (formerly Darkover Grand Council). My husband and I will ...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

ChessieCon

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We spent the Friday through Sunday noon after Thanksgiving at ChessieCon in Timonium (just north of Baltimore). I'm thankful for its loc...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Thanksgiving Weekend

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Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers! This weekend, as usual, I'll be attending ChessieCon (formerly Darkover): ChessieCon ...