Joe

My secret weapon and the man behind everything you see on this webpage is Joe. He makes it easy for the rest of us to just float along. As you can see at least one person thinks his ribs are the best in the world. And there are others! The thought of being invited to one of Joe's rib dinners even enticed a famous science fiction writer to write a poem for "Blowup", my rock-n-roll and ice on the moon story.

Joe is an official cook for the Cajun Sushi Hell Hamsters, shown here with our other official cook, Maureen McHugh and some of our dinner guests. Though, truth be known, most of the Hamsters are pretty good cooks. Maureen and Joe just like cooking more than the rest of us. Is there anyone out in Cyberland who'd like to offer a deserving Hamster a scholarship to go to cooking school? Standing on the left and on the right are Hamster dinner guests Nancy Kress and Ellen Datlow. Giving Maureen a big hug is Honorary Hamster Karen Joy Fowler. Karen is chair of a week long summer fiction writing workshop at Cleveland State University called "Imagination". Imagination's 1997 SF guest writer is Jim Kelly. If you attend, you might get to meet some Cajun Sushi Hamsters this summer!

Joe was an All-American Soccer Player. He has coached at the college level, but presently is concentrating on teaching soccer to very young children (kindergarten thru third grade), with the odd foot skills clinic for older teenagers. He is interested in exchanging ideas for drills and games that keep kids enthusiastic about playing soccer, such as "crab" soccer or "black hole" soccer. If you have some fun ideas, please send Joe an e-mail.

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