Just For Fun Friday 03/21/2014
Sharing from a trip to North Carolina – driving the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Lots of waterfalls, but this was the only one you could see ON the road…)
Rooting for the Bad Guy
Remember the days of the movie serial? When the good guys all wore white hats and were clean-shaven? The bad guys wore black and had rough faces? Suddenly the lines blurred. Batman wore dark colors and hid his face. So did The Shadow. And they were heroes, but sometimes worked outside the law. What happened? […]
Just For Fun Friday 03/14/2014
Use Your Wit I went with my daughter to look at cars a few years back, and while she was talking to a salesman, I drifted around in the showroom. Another salesman approached me about a car I was looking at. I told him I wasn’t buying, but thought that particular vehicle was ugly. He began […]
Plot, or Character?
During one of our group meetings several years ago, one of the members told me he thought I wrote like William Faulkner (Thanks, Norman!). This was a great compliment but I had mixed emotions about it. I love Faulkner’s characters – they are strong and well-defined. He develops and describes his settings so vividly it’s […]
Just For Fun Friday 03/07/2014
Alas, I strayed from my original intention of always having a reference to Lewis Carroll’s works in this blog. In truth, it was harder than I thought! But therein lies a challenge – and I’m always up for those. So here’s a bit of trivia….. Jabberwocky , from Through the Looking Glass, is a seemingly […]
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