• This month, you’ll gaze at all things glittering and celestial, from meteors ancient and modern, to an award-winning skywatcher in our world today

• Dec. 5—read my guest post on ancient Greek timekeeping at scientist and fellow author Holly Tucker’s Wonders & Marvels site: www.wondersandmarvels.com.

• Dec. 7 and 14—a lively, two-part interview with Dr. Alan Hirshfeld:  astrophysicist and author of snappy prose about intellectual giants of the past, from Archimedes to Faraday. For his students at Umass Dartmouth, this guy reveals the red-hot secrets of stellar interiors—including our own sun.

• Dec. 21— 2010’s winter solstice promises to be quite a celebration. Big doings skyward tonight, including a total lunar eclipse of the full moon! In honor of the heavenly goings-on, you’ll get a fascinating peek at what the ancient Greeks and Romans made of meteors and eclipses—and the hero-worship still given certain meteoric hitchhikers in our galaxy.

• Dec. 28: Everything old is new again: an end-of-the-year index of my first year’s blogposts, from Alexander the Great’s excellent afterlife adventures to our own great 21st century Al…Hirshfeld.

• Beginning in December, I enter the hermetically sealed author’s bat-cave to complete work on my forthcoming book—and my blog posting frequency will go to once weekly.  Join me in January for more interviews, more larks with ancient evidence, and as always, more 2000-year-old stories to astonish, amaze, and amuse.

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