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Visitor
We have been lucky enough to have a friend come and stay with us. Not an easy feat in the midst of a pandemic and with my crazy schedule, but he managed to be here during my lightest days and we took some time to visit. It makes me wonder how many people take the…
Shadow and Cinderella
The ducks have finally started laying eggs. Cinderella is laying white eggs and Shadow appears to be laying dove gray eggs. She has only produced 1 so far, so it might change as egg production becomes regular, but not too much. According to the literature most Cayuga ducks lay black or green eggs. So we’ll…
Likable Characters
When I develop a character and set them lose in a setting of my creation, I never know if he or she will play nice with others, or become a baboon and show his or her flaming ass to one and all. Usually I develop characters I think I will like, unless of course the…
Covid
We have seen so many people fall ill with this disease. There is so much false information, so much emotion thrown in, the situation can be terrifying. Let me set a few things straight. The vaccine prevents the worst; death and hospitalization, not infection, not the ability to pass the virus. That’s why even the…
Sleep Deprived
At various times in my life the fan of events takes on a life of its own and increases speed. The only way to keep up is to deduct time from sleeping, which I happen to enjoy and need to function at peak. So for a few days I enter into this cautious fog, but…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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