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Jamboree 2025   HI–   I read Calvin and Hobbes, the newspaper comic strip, 1987 edition. Over the decades when I had newspaper subscriptions, my favorite comics were Pogo, Curtis. Rose is Rose, and Calvin and Hobbes, because of their superior imagination. I’m a fan of imagination, as fans of…

HI – I completed Xanth #50, Limbo, this month. It features a character introduced in #49, Aura, a member of the Lips tribe, with the power to kiss a male into love slavery. You know the type, from Apoca Lips. She visits the nebulous Region of Limbo, where paradox does…

 HI- We continue here, perched in our apartment overlooking the beach at the edge of the broad Pacific Ocean. But we hardly get out, because we’re still trying to get unpacked and organized. We order deliveries galore. Meanwhile I have written the first chapter of Xanth #50, working title Limbo.…

HI- I am backlogged on two HiPiers columns, as at present it seems to be harder to get them put on the site than it is to write them. But I’m going ahead with this one while I have time. Once I get to writing Xanth #50 my time will…

HI – I am still slowly learning how to use my Smartphone; with luck I will manage to complete the process before the next upgrade puts me back at ground zero minus two and a half. I can turn on the flashlight function, sometimes by accident. I know how to…