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All I see
I’m gaining perspective on the old phrase, “ignorance is bliss.”
When you are a child, how often are you aware of how much danger is around you, under your feet?
It amazes me sometimes to look back, think on things we did as kids, nearly oblivious to the hazards. Some parents freak out about children riding unrestrained in the back of a pickup; I ( Read more... ) -
Resolution
No problem, they told him. You have very well-behaved students, they said.
Yet they are still middle-schoolers, full of fidgeting and shuffling, murmers and whispers with each other, or lost in their own individual worlds, even though the bell to begin class rang over a minute ago.
And the tacher barely able to speak above a whisper.
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The Fall
Earlier this month, the Stuttgart Daily Leader newspaper folded.
My family emailed and Facebook-posted to let me know, since up here in Indianapolis I wasn’t likely to hear about it. Mom said that the holding company that owned the DL and other Arkansas papers decided it wasn’t making enough (newspapers on their own are almost never profitable ( Read more... ) -
Summons answered
I'm hearing the call to return to the new season of LJ Idol. Let's give this thing one more shot.
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Still around
Non-story entry here.
I thought it best to let the site know I'm still around and not done with this account yet.
Haven't done any intense fiction writing in a while. Hope that changes soon, but for now oh so busy (ain't that always the way of the world) -
Compelled, but not defeated
I love old stories.
This situation reminds me of the tale of Brother Rabbit. You'll hardly hear that one, and that's sad. But I understand, there are problems attached to the telling, yet the story itself is still valid. We got it from an oppressed people who brought such tales from their old lands, tales they told for generations to their children ( Read more... ) -
The inevitable crash
You see the flash, and count. You know it's coming ( Read more... ) -
Fearfully and Wonderfully
Did I ask to be made ( Read more... ) -
Never not funny
The embers of the fire-pit were exceptionally warm this night. That could explain why more cousins than usual were gathered around. And it didn’t take long for the stories to begin ( Read more... ) -
Many manys
“I'm tired,” I say, to no one in particular, so I'm not surprised that he answers.
“Take a nap, then,” the barely visible one purrs. The Woman, who sometimes senses him, calls him Ghostcat. That was not his name-among-us when he was flesh, nor his name his Man or Woman called him then, but it amuses me to call him that.
“Not that kind of tired,” I ( Read more... )