The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross Narrated by Gideon Emery Published by Recorded Books At A Glance: Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic. But for some reason, he is. What the Goose? The good...

For Valentine’s Day this year, I surprised my wife1 with a date to the The Loretta Paganini School of Cooking Valentine’s Dinner for Two.2 Sabra and I had always been very curious about the classes and events offered by the school, a local Chesterland establishment, and we both were very much looking forward to the evening’s dinner and festivities....

How do you follow-up a story like the last one? Seriously! I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around it. Why? For the first time, I broke 100 visitors on my site in one day! Now, that may seem like small peanuts to, well, everyone. But for me, for my personal blog site, that’s a milestone I never really thought I’d hit. As I explained to my lovely...

Our story begins on the morning of Sunday, January 31. As I recall, it was a fairly nice looking day outside, despite the snow covering the grass outside our window. I glanced at the clock and realized that I had better get out of bed and get ready for church or we would be late again. Ah well. I rolled out of bed, when my lovely wife informed me that she had been...