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Deception
In Grabon’s world, being deceptive is a skill, one greatly admired, but it is only used for specific purposes. Some dragons may choose to conceal a certain ability from others. As it harms no one and gives the advantage to the individual with the ability this is considered well done. Others attempt to hide their…
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Oppositional
Have you ever met someone who will argue over the color of your new shirt? How about someone who will debate how many minutes late you were? Oppositional people will argue anything, for any reason. The only way to stop them is to agree, a method called “dropping the rope.” It is hard to have…
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Unexpected
There are a lot of unexpected things that happen in a life. In the lives of my characters things seldom turn out as they originally planned. Male or female, human or dragon, they are forced to think quickly and launch into alternative plans. As the creator of the characters, I can say that my life…
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Religion
In my books religion is an interesting thing. I have a family of Farmers, Craftsmen, Artisans, Miners, Woodsmen, and even Clergy that arrive on the new planet and settle there. But the Clergy were not keepers of a single faith, because not all people practice the same faith, not on earth today and certainly not…
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Wonder of Wonders
We catch water. Our tap water is fine, but water barrels and water containers that catch rainfall feels like we are doing something positive when we water our plants with stored and saved rainwater. Today I glanced in one of the barrels and low and behold, two eyes were staring back at me. Lots of…
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Fiction
One of the funniest things that sometimes happens when people realize you can write is there are those people who want to tell you what you should write about. Usually it has to do with something they are interested in, generally not even fiction related. They are willing to tell you all about it to…
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Education
So many people lament the lost time in classrooms that kids have suffered through because of the pandemic and they focus on all the things kids have not learned and things that kids have not done. As a retired educator I’d like to change perspectives for a minute and think of this another way. Families…
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September 11, 2021
I remember getting the phone call as I was getting ready for work. Mark a teacher I was working with called to say NewYork was under attack. It was an endlessly long day, helping kids frame the information, wondering about family in NewYork, calling to discover all circuits were busy. I was 5,000 miles from…
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Cinderella the Duck
At the first stirrings of spring, my dad and I went into the local farm and fleet and ordered 2 out of the shell ducks. We also got 8 more chicks, Rhode Island Reds, to go with our other chickens. After some discussion we were ready to try ducks, but we had no idea what…
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Territory Dragons
If you ask Grabon, being a territory dragon is simply a matter of having branches on your power line. That is definitely an over simplification since many clan members of the Combined Territories has branching power lines, yet none of them choose to take on the role of territory dragon. Grabon and Heron made a…
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Disappointment
People set expectations of themselves and of others and when something happens and we fail to meet those expectations there is disappointment. Grabon certainly felt that way when he was expecting a strong mate that he could test his strength on and instead found a young frail mate in need of his protection. Grabon also…
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Responsibility
As an American, I believe in freedom. I support a person’s right to choose what they are going to do in any given situation. I also support consequences. If you choose this, that will happen. Screaming loud and long does not change anything. It does make you look funny, which also comes with consequences. Typically…
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