My darling girl, when are you going to realise that being normal is
not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage!

— Aunt Frances, “Practical Magic”
 
 
INTRO
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is the online journal of Alexandra Wolfe — an editor, writer, photographer, and archaeologist of the future.

BIOGRAPHY
Alexandra was born at an extraordinary young age in Hanover, Germany, to English speaking parents, which confused the hell out of her. It was the year Sputnik made headlines and people were exploding atomic bombs in the desert. Not that the desert had done anything to deserve this treatment. Despite the young age of three, she sailed with her treasured Bushbaby from England to Hong Kong, a journey that took almost three months. She was accompanied by a number of big people who claimed to be her family, though to this day she still isn’t sure who they are. She does, however, like it when they send her birthday cards and Christmas gifts.

During her formative years Alexandra was hauled round the planet at an alarming rate, moving approximately every two to three years. Consequently she knows a lot about geography, languages, people, foreign cuisine and really big bugs, which she used to collect and stick pins in. She no longer has the bug collection but she does have fond memories of all the exotic and not so exotic places she visited and the people she met.

And yes, it’s true, she loves Marmite.

WHAT’S IN A NAME
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress derives its name from the title of a Robert A. Heinlein novel. Heinlein being one of my favourite SF authors. If it hadn’t been for his style of YA-orientated action-adventure brand of SF, which I read voraciously, I might not have made it through puberty let alone, adolescence. In fact, but for the escapism SF offered my young, overly-eager, fertile mind, I might have turned out altogether quite a different person.

COLOPHON
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is hosted by A Small Orange and content managed by WordPress. It utilizes the theme Blog Notes Core coded by Thord Daniel Hedengren. The typefaces of choice are Georgia and Verdana. All logos, images, and illustration are copyright Alexandra Wolfe, unless otherwise stated.