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The Long March

I’m mostly alive, and sorry to be so late, but yesterday for reasons I can’t explain lest we all be commited, husband, older son and I felt a necessity to walk seven miles, uphill, through snow. Younger son picked us up when we realized we simply didn’t have it in us to walk back.

It’s not the first time we did this, and it was both easier and more difficult than before. Easier in that I really didn’t get tired till the last mile, more difficult because we did it in ice and snow, and like a r...

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MUMMY’S CURSE – A REVIEW BY JIM WOOSLEY

[Click on the picture to buy the book on Amazon, or if you prefer here is a link to Smashwords. Stephanie tells me it’s also available in the itunes store.] Stephanie Osborn is best known for her Displaced Detective series, which used interdimensional travel to bring a variant ofSherlock Holmes from Victorian England to the present. Sherlock Holmes and the Mummy’s Curse is the first book in a new series, Gentleman Aegis, whichfollows Holmesprior to this insertioninto the modern work, expos...

Enough

This morning over breakfast I was thinking of what used to be considered enough. (Not enough food, I had two poached eggs for breakfast, something that would have been un imagined luxury some days of my childhood. You see, when the chickens weren’t laying much, an egg and some rice might be dinner and certainly not every day. Of course, when they were laying and we had a few who did two eggs a day, grandma would be begging us to eat eggs. The problem of self-sufficiency at least in places wit...

Myth Matched

Every culture has myths. For instance, I grew up in a culture where I knew (not thought, mind you, knew) that if you took more than one aspirin at once, you’d die.

Proven? You don’t need proven. Everyone knew this. Why would you test something that could kill you?

So my first week in the states, when I told my host mother I had a headache and she said “just take a couple of aspirin” I thought she was trying to kill me. She had to show me the instructions on the bottle.

This trivial incident w...

On A Far Distant Shore, Complete

*It’s unproofed. Forgive me. Of course, it’s also free. I’ll probably clean it and sell it in a tales of the USAians collection, eventually.*

On A Far Distant Shore

Sarah A. Hoyt

It was nothing. Less than nothing. A glimpse out of the corner of the eye, a flash of color. Tell me, is that something to risk life and security on? For a stranger? And one you never liked?

I’m not a fighter. My parents tried to make me one, at least as far as their religion demanded. Weekends of camping rough and...

The Beginning

*Sorry guys, still working on this. Hoping to put it up by noon tomorrow. Sorry.*

On A Far Distant Shore

Sarah A. Hoyt

It was nothing. Less than nothing. A glimpse out of the corner of the eye, a flash of color. Tell me, is that something to risk life and security on? For a stranger? And one you never liked?

I’m not a fighter. My parents tried to make me one, at least as far as their religion demanded. Weekends of camping rough and weeks of training in survival and weapons didn’t make me lik...

Watch This Space

I’m writing a story — see cover below but I’m being yanked away to “more house stuff” which will take time, so let me take care of some business.

As you might have guessed “house stuff” on the buying end this time has made me a very bad shipper of things to subscribers. The good news is you’re still in time, and I’ll try to send some stuff this week. The bad news is that I’ve had no time to do t-shirts, posters, etc. (Sorry, I’ve barely been home.)

So, for now, think of this as a place to get...

SORRY TO GO MISSING

I left the house at 9 and expected to be back before noon.

Partly because I expected the house hunting to have to be postponed. We’re way over the bag limit. No. Actually we are semi-snowbound, so I expected to not be able to go out.

But the roads were okay, so we were out all day.

I’m trying to write a Holiday gift for you guys, but I can’t promise it will be up today. Might be tomorrow.

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Ring The Bell

In Downtown Porto, the city where I went to college, there is a place by the river, near all the old houses, where the bridge of boats used to stand

The river Douro, which separates Porto from its neighbor Gaia, is — at least in that portion — shallow and rocky bottomed. Apparently early nineteenth (and prior) tech couldn’t figure out how to bridge this (they turned that corner, the old bridge there is a magnificent structure by Eiffel) so the bridge, as it stood since medieval times, was a b...