Category Archives: Personal history

Mrs. McPherson’s Antidote to Despair

Posted on 20 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

my husband is dead and it’s lonely now      though still i enjoy the bright sun in my morning kitchen where i      sit and drink coffee and remember. the kids are gone off with their own      lives and … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Science v Stories; Religion, Conservative Resistance, and Reality; a Freeway

Posted on 13 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Science Fiction, Science, and Storytelling Tor.com: Nancy Kress: Science and Science Fiction: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Many, many more people see science fiction movies than read print SF. Almost all SF movies, and much print SF as … Continue reading →

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Apple Valley Dreams

Posted on 10 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

From the northeast corner of Apple Valley — where the first, now disappeared, Apple Valley house where my family lived, was — you get views to the south and southwest of the hills and mountains, during the day and at … Continue reading →

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Trip Report: Apple Valley 2017

Posted on 6 July 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Since I finished a couple posts of photos and commentary (e.g. http://www.markrkelly.com/Blog/photos/first-apple-valley-house/) about the house in Apple Valley, California, where my family lived when I was three or four years old, I’ve been gathering photos of the second Apple Valley … Continue reading →

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Frequency Interactions

Posted on 20 June 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

When I was a teenager, in the Fall of 1971 just after I turned 16 years old, and just a few months after my family had returned to California from a three-year stay in Illinois, I took a typing course … Continue reading →

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Genealogical Post: My Family Trees

Posted on 1 June 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Over the past year I’ve been perusing family trees on both my father’s and mother’s sides, each of which goes back several generations, on one side to the first generation born overseas that immigrated to the US – i.e., “first … Continue reading →

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I Can Do Anything: Mark Haddon’s THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

Posted on 24 April 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Last week I posted a look back at 20 Years of Locus Online and, having asked my lead contributors over the years for their best or exceptional posts, revisited an 11-year-old essay by film reviewer Gary Westfahl, Homo aspergerus: Evolution … Continue reading →

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Apple Valley History

Posted on 12 April 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Apple Valley was not quite so obscure a place as I may have implied. Even as a child, I was aware of a couple exceptional circumstances. First, it was the home of then famous (if by now likely forgotten) singing … Continue reading →

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About to Re-watch Star Trek

Posted on 3 April 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

So a few words about my history with Star Trek, ending with my reflection that while I was obsessed by the show in my teens, I haven’t seen but a handful of episodes, at all, in 40 years. (I’m talking … Continue reading →

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The Stars Have Names

Posted on 21 January 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s an interesting article from the December 6th, 2016 New York Times, Twinkle, Twinkle Little [Insert Name Here], by Dennis Overbye (the print title was “Twinkle, Twinkle, Who?”), about how the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has finally sat down to … Continue reading →

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