What has gone before?
It is getting close to that time of the year again, my friends. I’m referring of course to the month of November and the annual Write a Novel in a Month Challenge! The premise is simple. Write 50 thousand words in 30 days. This leaves no time for fancy editing. Just get your story told … More NaNoWriMo Challenge!
Here’s still another tale from my good friend, Stanislas Delafield, of the Shire of Tri Os. It’s called Summer – 1066 and any history buff should be familiar with the major events of that year.
A good friend has given permission for me to share one of his medieval tales with you. Please check out Storm Dragon and let us know what you think.
My previous post has a great piece of dialog from The Avatar, by Poul Anderson. But that is just barely scratching the surface of this fun book. At first glance, this appears to be a light-hearted space opera that deals with first contact with an alien species and indeed, one may accept it at that. … More The Avatar by Poul Anderson
This weekend, I was poking around a thrift shop (as I’m wont to do) and picked up a handful of cheap paperbacks. They were all books I have read before, but since they are so good and so cheap, I decided to reread and then pass them on to some deserving friends. One of them … More Great quote!
I was up in Pennsylvania this past weekend and had lunch at a wonderful place called “The Hidd’n Valley Restaurant”. You can find it about seven miles south of Orbisonia, on Route 522. The address is: 22612 Crogham Pike, Shade Gap, PA 17255 If you happen to find yourself around Orbisonia, PA, do yourself a … More Great Country Cookin’
I just found out that today, two legends of the entertainment field have passed on. Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson are no longer with us.
One of my heros is the physicist Richard Feynman. One of his hobbies was playing drums. He first learned how while in samba training for Carnival in Rio. Education
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