Agents were ringing me, another speaking urgently on his phone, and the senior trying to argue with Adam’s dominance, his arm round a still shaking Jesse. ( Read more... )

Then it was movie time, and Shrek worked every bit as well as I’d hoped. ( Read more... )

Adam and I were suppressing grins, Skuffles didn’t bother, and State’s eyes narrowed before she nodded.
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And there were. ( Read more... )

5. The Proper Use of Thunderbolts
I’D like to be able to blame this one on Irpa, but besides the vicious idiocy of the John Lauren Society I can’t really point a finger at anyone except myself. ( Read more... )

With underfloor heating not yet in action and snow lying wherever wind hadn’t scoured it away even a brightly sunlit Great Manitou Corner was cold, and we were all well wrapped, as were visiting chiefs, beaming musicians, my engineers, Caroline and Penny, with Vince, Al, Dwayne, and Don. ( Read more... )

I left him staring, and some brisk discussion with Medicine Wolf, eyes occasionally going distant as it consulted, found agreement that a first meeting with Koyaanisquat, attending the planning conference, could be filmed but only broadcast as a prologue to the meeting when Great Manitou Corner was done. ( Read more... )

Dragging out of there an hour later I’d pretty much decided, again, that being the nation’s emotional pivot sucked wide, and kitchen-time was in order, but before ap Lugh plus knights could peel off in the Garden of Manannán’s Death Underhill showed up, wanting a word about the trees’ reporting system, which I wound up promising to discuss with Ol ( Read more... )

The Blackfeet Reservation is north of Browning, east of Glacier NP, and there are not so many roads thereabouts, so the venue was of necessity close to Highway 464, aka Duck Lake Road, a little north of where it crosses the south fork of the Milk.( Read more... )

4. Where the Buffalo Roam
GIVING the State of the Union is an odd business.( Read more... )