The Fies Files

Squirrel!  For years, I've said that I'd know our neighborhood had recovered from our 2017 firestorm when I finally saw a squirrel i...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I took the usual mix of sci...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] As of today, I have lived l...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “It’s better to burn out, t...

  Shot by Karen from the back of the museum's intimate theater while I talked about the original Mom's Cancer webcomic. I think my ...

Friends! I'm giving a talk and signing books at 2 p.m. next Saturday, May 16, at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., an...

On our morning walk through the neighborhood this morning, Karen and I encountered a coyote boldly trotting down the middle of the street. I...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Innovation occurs at the i...

The game show "Jeopardy" has a category called "Potpourri" that is a catch-all for random answers. This is a Potpourri P...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When I was 9, my grandparen...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] My two favorite books about...

Bryant Lin and I before the class started. I had a terrific time at Stanford University yesterday, talking about Mom's Cancer with a cl...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I have a couple of recurrin...