This month I'm re-running one of my most popular blog posts. What if your grandfather never met your grandmother? That’s easy – you wouldn’t exist. What if your grandfather died in an accident and your grandmother moved back to where she came from? Then the whole family tree would be uprooted and a different set of relatives would be born… and you wouldn’t exist. We’re all the product of countless accidents of fate. Or accidents of happenstance, depending on your point of

Would you pay to watch Connie the Contortionist? If you were an average American in 1918, chances are the answer to that question would be ‘yes!’ Because Vaudeville was at the peak of its popularity, filling seats in theaters where audiences paid good money to watch trained animals, tap dancers, comedians, and yes, contortionists, do their thing. A couple of characters in my next time travel novel work at a Vaudeville theater in Atlanta. And while you may shake your head at s