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As the year draws to an end, the drama and nostalgia set in. This year more than most, because, as you have probably heard dozens of times by now, today is not only the last day of the year, but also the last day of the decade. The last day of the 2010s. The decade … More Farewell to My Childhood
Phone ringtones. Catchy little tunes that get hopelessly stuck in your head faster than I get stuck in a good book. One day I wondered where they come from, and to my utmost delight, I discovered that they often come from classical pieces. Further investigations led me to Gran Vals, a piece for classical guitar. … More Gran Vals – Tárrega
Dragging myself out of bed at 4:30 a.m., flying for over twenty hours across the Pacific Ocean, and being stuck in an airport for six hours results in messy hair, extreme boredom, and the lovely phenomenon of circadian desynchrony, more commonly known as jet lag. I won’t get into the details of why we ended … More Ode to Jet Lag
Ah, the glories of autumn! North winds blowing colors of crimson and gold into leaves. Fizzling cider. Warm, flickering candles. Orange pumpkins. Soothing rain. Camp fires. Spice. Wool blankets. Pies. Pattering rain. Apple picking. Jumping into leaves. Except, here in Texas, I’ve never actually experienced an autumn like this (though to be fair, we do … More Finding Joy in Unromantic Autumns
It was a blistering summer day. Rylow’s lean, massive frame racked with uncontrollable shivers. He pulled his hood even further over his head and wrapped his cloak even tighter. Rylow would lose the majestic, intimidating effect of a billowing cloak, but on that bright summer day, he didn’t care. It was utterly, bone-chillingly, marrow-freezingly icy. … More The Assassin
Did you know that E is the most common letter in the English language, appearing in 11% of all words in the common English vocabulary? (1) I thought it would be both a cool, challenging exercise and a fun activity to see if I could write a little story without using the letter E. I … More An Experiment Without E
I’ll be honest here. When I first cracked open Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, I didn’t have very great expectations. The reason is because I had already tried to read Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (by read I mean hopelessly flounder as if chest deep in sand) and by the end of a few … More A Life Lesson from Jolly Ol’ Joe
The Voyaging Storyteller 