Been a long time since I have had a chance to post anything in here.  Summer has been so crazy.  Between working on our home, keeping the girls occupied and keeping myself from going insane - well, you can only imagine ( Read more... )

Thran, Part Five

Sixteen.  Thran had been paired a dozen times, producing six children that had already been sold away.  He had grown into one of his master’s best stock - tall and strong of body, good constitution, little to no illness and intelligent.  He was good with the animals and in the fields and could work independently without ( Read more... )

Kaeden’s Birthday

Today marks a day that I’ve come to look forward too and at the same time, dread.  May 5, 2002 was a day Jimi and I had been looking forward to for nearly five years - the birth of our first child.  We had finally gotten into jobs that allowed us to have kids.  We had already owned own home for five years.  The day we ( Read more... )

Thran, Part Four

“Thran!”  Karn bellowed over the swooshing of the sickles cutting through the wheat.

Thran lifted the poll and ducked his head under it to lift two buckets filled with water.  His lean body fought against the weight, and threatened to dump the water all together, but he found his balance and rushed forward as fast as ( Read more... )

Feeling quiet today.  After wild weather yesterday (huge wind and snow and rain all day yesterday, it left me tired and worn out.  Perhaps it was the overindulgence - Jimi and I went out to an early supper at our only Chinese restaurant within 30 minutes of our place, but then went on a movie binge as well, and wound up staying up late...  The baby ( Read more... )

     The air was cold and dank against him and it was hard to breathe.  His small body ached from what seemed to be hundreds of hits.  It was dark, too dark for him to see and immediately, Thran knew that he had been locked in the root cellar beneath the barn.  He could hear and smell the animals above him and felt the dirt falling on him as they ( Read more... )

My Obsession

My novel has become such an obsession that I can speak of my characters as if they are real people.  I stated in the beginning that this is a pure fantasy idea that I’ve been working on for some time.  The stories are kind of in the same vane as Tolkien and Lewis, but more modern like Dianna Wayne Jones or Weis and Hickman.  I’m ( Read more... )

Today, I’m not going with what I’ve been working on for what seems like forever.  Today, the sun is out, there’s a light breeze coming in from the northeast and the birds are out in full force.  I’m sitting here thinking that I want to go out, but need to get this all down first…

A Walk in the Woods…

I have the pleasure of living in ( Read more... )

So, today is the first day of my journal.  I've been saying to just about everyone that I really need to start an on-line journal to get my writing going.  Thanks to the ladies over at cbdotorg for kicking me in the ass to finally just do it, especially to 'Burd, Alex and Dura.

My general plan for this journal is to work on my writing, post ideas ( Read more... )