The Fies Files

Back when we were young parents, Karen and I realized with chagrin that any ol' thing we happened to do two Christmases in a row immedia...

Admit it: work is kinda slow right now. You're just going through the motions waiting for your time off next week. What you really ne...

My sisters mailed us a fat padded envelope with "Open Now" written across the sealing flap. That's not unusual at Christmastim...

Time again for my annual reminder that I am happy--nay, thrilled!--to offer signed bookplates for Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorro...

Tuesday's launch of my new webcomic, The Last Mechanical Monster, went far better than I'd hoped. Thank you! Many people whose op...

So I've started a new webcomic. It's called The Last Mechanical Monster, it's about a very old man and his giant robot, and you...

Small single-plate dishes on a chilly autumn day . . . * * * Comics journalist Heidi MacDonald has been writing about a Kickstarter twi...

Karen and I spent half of a nice Sunday with our daughters at the Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco. Our girls went last year and wer...

I'm late in mentioning--shouting from the highest rooftops!--that the Call for Papers has been issued and registration is open for the F...

Back in June, I Facebooked about meeting astronaut Dan Bursch and posted a photo of me giving him a copy of Whatever Happened to the Worl...

[Updated with corrections from Editor Charlie, who thinks I still need editing. He's right.] I have seen the hardest-working man in...

This third in a haphazard series of essays on books that made a big difference in my life follows posts on You Will Go To the Moon by Ma...