I did a little traveling this weekend. One of my granddaughters rated some of my music as we drove back from a family gathering. I'll get to that in the music section below.Cat, Felgar, Hugh, and Akira. These are the fearless dragon hunters Lucette m...

   Those of you who have read Threading the Rude Eye may recognize this scene in which Antonio dares the British to do their worst. He, of course, has great confidence in his enchanted ward against British ball--as well as...

 I was able to spend some time with Les Freres Corses last week. In addition to having pizza, we found time to bust out some tabletop gaming. Above is the picture of the board they prepared for their two adventurers. I called it The Oracle,...

After escaping the dragon's attack on the Sorceress, Court rows Chris and Kenny through a rough surf landing on a hidden stretch of beach - the only safe place he can find on a coastline he knows is dangerous. It's a pure survival sequence: no magi...

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Before I get to a review of the movie, I note that everything seems to be on fire. Roaring flames encroach on the old homestead across the state and evacuation notices are in place there; the hiking trail I wrote about in the previous post in on the...

"I knew the histories well enough to know that folks who pounded desks and yelled “Unity” a lot usually just wanted everyone else to shut up and do what they were told." - A Kiss for Damocles, from chapter 18, by Kenton Pierce.I just finished reading...

   That mound of gray material atop the rock, according to the sign, is ash that was all hot and sticky and formed a kind of concretesque substance when it got compacted. I didn't get to go up and examine it closely because...

  The picture isn't from Writers Cantina, it's one I created from a scene in my book, Accidental Wizard, which will be published in September.___________  I had planned to be on the road by 3 pm. The assistant who...

"[H]is instinct fortunately telling him that it was better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.""I have enemies, and I am proud of it. I think I have deserved them."The two quotes above are from The Revolt of Angels by Anatole France. I...

 Thomas R. Yarborough's A Shau Valor takes you to the action that brought individuals recognition with wards of Congressional Medals of Honor and other distinctions for courage, bravery, and service. A lot of those recipients received the aw...

  It's pretty good, but I think it's fake.This email praising my work, I mean. This time the praise is for Crisis in Fire and Snow - the most recent novel in the Tomahawks and Dragon Fire Series. Hello Stanley Wheeler,AMAZI...

I'd like to be the sort of man the flag could boast about;I'd like to be the sort of man it cannot live without;I'd like to be the type of manThat really is American:The head-erect and shoulders-square,Clean-minded fellow, just and fair,That all men...

 I realize not everyone is a fan of Shakespeare's Hamlet, but everyone is entitled to their opinion--even a wrong one. So, if you don't find that message above highly amusing, you'll need to read the play or the posts I've done about adaptat...

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