We have been watching our grandson while our daughter-in-law continues in Dental School. She will be responsible for taking care of the chaos in my mouth for the remainder of my life. Part of that chaos is surely attributable to my love of coffee. For a very long time neither […]
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I just had to write this, because I had to sit through Under the Tuscan Sun, again, about a woman with a new life in Italy. The character runs into the man of her dreams, but is set back, when he turns away from her because of a perceived lack […]
I just finished watching the Life of Pi and was moved deeply by the story. I have the book on my Kindle, but can’t seem to find the time to sit and read as I fulfill my professional duties and the little time remaining to writing. The story to me […]
My daughter believes my blog needs a little less dash of bacon and more dashes of fashion. She gave me this photo and challenged me to write something humorous about it. Where can I possibly start? For once I was almost speechless, well, fingerless since this is a blog. I […]
Many families do not have the opportunity to take just one photo of a series of generations within a family. The above photo is of my family’s four male generations, beginning with the patriarch all the way to the newest member of the line of Greenlee’s – Brogan. What a […]
I am the king of Allivar, the seventh king of the line of Yubal, I have been given the surname “The Destroyer.” Yet, I reluctantly take this crown passed to me by my father before he went mad, it is my life’s burden and bane. The one I love, Narcissia, […]
For the past twelve months I have been providing small snippets of the background to my trilogy fantasy – The Chosen One of Allivar. It is a mythology primarily concerned with family. Not just an immediate family, but the human family. This month we celebrate a day that many choose […]
I saw this blog post title (What I love About My Story) and decided it should be one of mine. To keep it simple I will just give bullet points: It has action. Action that increases tenfold with each book. It has characters I love and I characters I hate. […]
Have you ever noticed that many religions have stories so similar that you wonder if all religions were founded and then modified from a single mythology? I not insinuating all religions are myths, but they all have common themes: creation, life, and end of times. When I began contemplating my […]
Many women I know will not read a fantasy story. When I ask, they simply say they do not like war or fantasy creations such as elves, demons, dragons, etc. Part of a good fantasy, in my opinion, must pull together the elements of fantasy with a great love story. […]