Pauline Baird Jones

  • What About Those Robots?

    What About Those Robots?

    One of the tropes that are very popular in science fiction romance right now is cyborgs. Lost Valyr introduces some new characters to my Garradian Universe, including some sentient military robots. So I thought it would be fun to look at what’s real with robots today.  One of the Marines’ latest weapon is a remote-controlled…

  • On Clean Houses and LIFE.

    We had family this past weekend and I love, love, love it.  We had much chatting. We had much hugging. We remembered and we played with and hugged and kissed babies. Yum! One of the things I do to prepare for incoming is to clean. Or, on good months, I find someone to come shovel…

  • Pondering Reruns, Re-watches, Re-listens, and Re-visiting…

    Do you remember in Back to the Future when Marty says he “saw that on a rerun” and his mom’s little brother asks, “What’s a rerun?” Now you can find the definition in an online dictionary. How weird is that (Rerun: The act or an instance of rebroadcasting a recorded movie or a recorded television…

  • If I had Minions…

    I had an aha moment while cruising my newsfeed on Facebook, a realization that something critical is missing from my life. Minions I don’t long to be a Despicable Me, but would I have to be to have my own minions? Think of all one could do if one had minions–not to mention the things one…