My regular job is teaching. I work through an agency and have the thrill and adventure of watching high school students grow, stretch, and become contributing members of society. This year I get to teach chemistry along with three different levels of math and a few other incidentals. But the story I am going to tell you ties into my world of NewEarth in a strange way. My chemistry class…

If we start with this world, one can make assumptions about people born in the thirties, the fifties, the seventies, and the nineties. They are different than those born after the computer revolution, and those born now. Current children will be that much more different than the generations before them and so it will continue as our world stretches, grows and becomes something new. It was not that long ago…

I was lucky enough to meet my fantastic NewEarth Artist while I was living in Missouri. She is an amazing woman with a talent for translating words into visuals. I described the scenes from the stories and she provided the images, bringing details to life, including an abundance of color. The natural world here on earth is filled with colors, textures, sounds, and smells. My fictional world needed to have…