Here is wishing everyone a fantastic holiday season no matter your faith, culture, or background. Embrace your family, love your life, and read lots of books. Our world is made better with fiction and non-fiction holding hands and allowing people to look, learn and experience things without setting themselves on fire.

When approaching a claimed territory, a dragon is supposed to announce their presence and purpose. This allows the territory dragon to impart rules and restrictions as well as issue invitations and warnings. Monna broke those rules by not announcing her presence in Gordon’s Pride. In Heron’s Bonds several visitors arrive, some follow the rules and some don’t. Not all dragons are compliant with rules, the same as not all humans…

Depending on where you live, this has entirely different meanings when reporting on the weather. Here in the southern mid-west, cold and clear is temps between 0-35 with the sun shining. In Alaska, cold when referring to weather starts at below, -1 and is anytime you can see sky, dark or light. Cold in Chicago is below 32 and in Minnesota I don’t think cold applies until 0 either. What…