Stalling

I swear I am not trying to pin down time and make it stop running out from under me, I simply like the glitz and lights of the fiber optic tree and the spinning pulse of our holiday lights. I had been thinking I would put them away this weekend. In fact I helped my…

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Gatherings

I don’t know about you, but my family tends to gather for all the best and worst occasions. We get together for birthdays, graduations, weddings, holidays, celebrations of family, personal accomplishments, funerals, illnesses, to help one another out, and just because. Much like my dragons, we gather for any good reason because there is comfort…

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Posting the Post

I know writers who do a post a week, others who post several times a day. When I am posting regularly I aim for once a day and am lucky if I hit 6 in a week. Then when I am not posting I am busy living my life and adventuring in my own way.…

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Clean Freak

To be honest I was always in trouble as a kid for leaving things out, like my coat and my shoes. Now as an adult I am too often accused of being a clean freak. My husband just aggressively set his glass by the sink and reminded me it was his. That is his subtle…

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Heron’s Mistake

If you have read Heron’s Bonds you will probably have a strong opinion on Heron and his worst mistake when he almost kills his mate and himself. But for those who have not yet read the story some background might be helpful. Heron is not a regular guy. As a young man he was engaged…

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My Birthday

I have been very lucky to be married to one of the nicest men on earth. He was waiting for me after work, ready to place our order for food as soon as I called my Dad. Instead of going over there and helping out, we were going out together to pick up our favorites…

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Weak Woman Hanna

An image of Gordon and Hannah on the farm

The downtrodden woman image can be twisted to fit any story where domestic females are happy in their role. However, Hanna featured first in Gordon’s Pride is traumatized, abused, and domestic by nature. She is not a dominant loud character. Instead she is quiet, enormously talented in many domestic arts, and because of her past…

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Reading and Dreaming

Well I try to take some time each day, aside from the news, mail, social media, professional sorts of things. I take some time for fiction, to fill up my dream world, to sink into a character, to fall into a story, to get lost beyond my own life into something else. I choose romances,…

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First Day of a New Year

Zack and Rogor riding a wagon pulled by a cattle.

Well, dragons did not take to the skies and as far as I know there were no messages from other species, but it was a wonderful beginning at my house for a hopeful year. We got together, listened to some fine music, ate some nice food, watched a hopeful movie, and exchanged a few stories.…

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Happy New Year!

Writing utopian fantasy not only involves building a world people would love to visit, it takes plenty of villains and heroes to move the story along. While there is an abundance of attention spent on Gordon, Grabon, and Heron, it is too easy to overlook the villains in my stories. As a matter of fact,…

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