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on Alternative Facts
I abhor politics. donald trump {capitalization intended} brings home why. trump, a small-minded vindictive bigot with a vastly oversized ego, has assumed a very big office, which he is using as a bully-pulpit as he proceeds to blatantly disregard various … Continue reading
a wish of you
~ a wish of you ~ ~ Was I granted one wish, that wish would be a wish of you… to see you every day and as every day draws to its close, to know I’ll see you on the … Continue reading
on Fairy Tales
My current WIP is an expansion of a short Fairy Tale I wrote some time ago, called A Crystal Tear. Attention to detail is far too important to me to allow me to ever be a prolific writer. To illustrate … Continue reading
on Closure
Made up words, with virtually no meaning. Closure. We’re closing the door, but not really… We’re forgetting something we should never forget… We’re throwing out the trash, by sharing it with the world… We’re letting it go, without thought of … Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited
Today is the last day any of my work will be enrolled in Amazon’s Kindle Select program for authors, and its Kindle Unlimited program for readers. This post attempts to explain why. First. Kindle Select pays authors based on the … Continue reading
on Uncertainty
Are you aware that men almost never make eye contact with each other, unless they are in a social setting? Why not? Well, to us men it is simply way too overt an aggressive act as direct eye contact between … Continue reading
on Change
No matter who you are, you won’t enjoy this post. What is it about? It’s about a world changing for the worse, it’s about the abject failure of the US political system, and most important of all, it is about … Continue reading
a new lease
As promised, one of my personal favorite excerpts from Beltamar’s War follows this post. It’s from a section titled “Of Dragon, and Eternity”. Things are not as simple as they first seem. Although my writing doesn’t pay the bills, it … Continue reading
on Our Soul’s Counsel
How can you not hear your soul? Or, perhaps to you the question is “How can you hear your soul?” In a way I don’t have an answer to either question, yet in another way, I have answers to both. … Continue reading
on Life
No job is worth a life, yet in the USA more and more jobs demand precisely that. Indeed, to me it seems likely many countries that have embraced capitalism as the basis of their social system make similar demands of … Continue reading
on Doing Well
There is so much happiness to be found through the presence of our children. I’m a fortunate man to have been been blessed with four such sources of wonder. Blessed… Blessed is such a difficult concept to comprehend. If we … Continue reading
on Tricks, with Time
The most fundamental reward of love given, is how often love is returned. I wonder why it takes us so long to learn lessons like this? Such are the lessons of life, simple lessons some seem destined never to learn … Continue reading
on Intuition
We spend years learning to suppress our instincts, then more years teaching our children to suppress theirs. Why do we do things we regret? Many scientists say we have “intuitions” all the time, however since they are usually wrong and … Continue reading
on Miracles
It strikes me that most women are fascinated by a baby’s feet. Women and men are different. Me? I’m fascinated by a baby’s hands. They bring home how miraculous life is. Perfect little hands, with perfect little fingers, tendons, muscles, … Continue reading
on Nature’s Lessons
It has always fascinated me how nurturing little girls are. Playing at being mothers is a skill nobody teaches them, they simply have it. Then they lose that skill about age ten or eleven, or shortly before puberty, and take … Continue reading