Cage Dunn's Blog, page 47

The Price

Each day on the way home from school, Carlie stopped at the bakery. She waited at the end of the shop where all the dust accumulated until the baker called her forward. He wouldn’t let her come too close to the loaves and buns and glass-fronted cabinets until every customer was out of sight. Only … Continue reading The Price

Blatant

The next stage of the current WIP has all my attention, so I’ll point you in this direction (click on the pic to go to the Amazon preview):   The Old Woman & The Mad Horse … A Thriller, Espionage, Rural Australia, Light Romance Reviews It was supposed to be a quiet place for a … Continue reading Blatant

Less Is More: A Poetic Paradox

Originally posted on Learn Fun Facts:
Image: NASA In his Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (1986), Gábor J. Székely shared a paradox learned from his professor, Alfréd Rényi: Since I started to deal with information theory I have often meditated upon the conciseness of poems; how can a single line of verse contain…

How I Stay Creative

Originally posted on Slumdog Soldier:
The lovely Mel Finch of Crushed Caramel has kindly nominated me for a 3.2.1 Quote Challenge! Originally created by Rory over at A Guy Called Bloke, today’s particular topic is ‘creativity’. Mel is a wonderful blogger who shares such heartfelt life experiences for readers to appreciate. Thanks Mel for considering…

Discourse

The question raised by #FPQ “Do you believe that anyone can really experience anything objectively? Why or why not?” The first reaction was almost shock. Objective? Humans? Not influenced by personal feelings? Not only is that unlikely, I think it’s impossible. Why do I feel that? First, how do we learn? Is it through the force-feeding … Continue reading Discourse

Do, or Do Not

Why worry about whether this will happen or that will happen, or what if, or why … if an opportunity arises to do something, why not just do it? Opportunities are few and dwindling. Especially when age and the consequences of choices made while indulging in the belief of never-ending youth. Who, me? No, I’m … Continue reading Do, or Do Not

And What Then?

I have a friend – sad, I know, only one – and that friend asked: Why do you write, why continue to write when it all seems so futile? The question took some time to mull over, and I had to toss a few glib answers out the window (defenestration at work – and yes, … Continue reading And What Then?

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Boof (aka Thom Thumper, Boss and Barbarian of all He Surveyed)     Anniversary … 15 years     Advertisements

Size, and How it Matters

  Thanks, Fandango, but it’s not at all what you expect … call it a twist of irony. Does size matter? Of course, it does. … I wrote a whole diatribe, deleted it, wrote it again, deleted it. It had nothing to do with the expectation of the question – or, at least, the expectation … Continue reading Size, and How it Matters

Book Review: Cage Dunn & Rose Brimson. The Old Woman & the Mad Horse – Case File for: the Big Three Mining Investigations

Originally posted on Tao Talk:
  I just finished reading this book and want to write the review while it is fresh in my mind. The genre for, “The Old Woman & the Mad Horse…”, by Cage Dunn and Rose Brimson, is action thriller. It takes place in the sparsely populated town of Brimpaen (that…