Therapeutic Equines

Follow the link to learn more, readers! https://youtu.be/ag8bSDw5t4Y Thoroughbred Therapy By Ken Olsen Aug 25, 2016 Rob Saavedra refused to acknowledge he had PTSD. The Air Force veteran and sheriff’s deputy worried that people around him, particularly co-workers, would consider him weak. And when he finally sought help from two different programs, he got no…

Sailing, Sailing, Over the Ocean Blue….

Check it out, readers! Project Azorian: Howard Hughes’ secret mission, which involved the CIA and a missing Soviet submarine off the coast of Hawaii Apr 25, 2018 Nikola Budanovic In 1974 a huge announcement was made by the already elderly but still versatile industrial magnate and airplane innovator Howard Hughes: his enterprise was on a quest…

Too Much of a Good Thing…

…is bad for everyone’s health. Click the link to consider more, readers: Tenderness Leads to the Gas Chambers? One of Flannery O’Connor’s most famous quotes is “tenderness leads to the gas chambers”. It was borrowed by Walker Percy in his novel The Thanatos Syndrome,  but what did O’Connor mean by the thought and why did Percy pick…

Reposted: Prologues vs. Flashbacks (Backstory Techniques, Pt. 1 of 3)

Check out this piece by K.M. Weiland, readers! Prologues vs. Flashbacks (Backstory Techniques, Pt. 1 of 3) If you want to rev up a group of passionate writers, just bring up the topic of backstory. As much as we love our stories, we often love our backstories even more. If plot offers a what and a how, backstory…

Rest and Be Still

A good reminder, readers! No shopping or housework on Sunday? Sign me up! Maria Garabis Davis - published on 08/28/16 "Keeping the Lord's Day was the best thing I've ever done for my family" I met her at a tradeshow I was attending. We hit it off immediately and the conversation flowed quickly. She was an owner…

Review: The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel

Well! It appears that I may have my reading speed back online, at least for the present. Then again, this is a book I have been hoping to read since I posted a link to an article on Dr. Martin Couney several years ago. It took time to finally find the time to read it,…

It’s Not Bedrock…

...but it is all too easy to picture the Flintstones living here, readers! Click the link to learn more: The Real-Life Flintstones Home: Bizarre ‘Stone House’ Built From Boulders Has Bulletproof Windows—but No Electricity BY LOUISE CHAMBERS MAY 2, 2023 A bizarre stone house built between four granite boulders, conceived of by a couple in the…

Reposted – Business Musings: Go Wide or Run Away or Amazon Fail

A worthwhile piece from Katherine Katheryn Rusch, readers: Business Musings: Go Wide or Run Away or Amazon Fail Posted: May 3, 2023 I’m writing this on the last day of April. I’ve been planning this post for months now, as the drumbeat of bad news out of Amazon escalated from rumors to asset sales to major…

Coming Out of Hiding

Food for thought, readers: Prayer is unhiddenness Fr. Peter John Cameron, OP - published on 04/16/23 No one can long endure self-imposed seclusion. From the disgrace of our hiding places, our hearts beseech God ... I gained new insight into prayer through a book by Tomáš Halík. In Night of the Confessor, the Czech priest writes: “To pray…

Review: The Heights of Perdition by C.S. Johnson

Whew! Well, this one took a while, readers. It is a bit of a juggler’s performance to read anything in a timely manner at present. However, I recently managed to finish The Heights of Perdition, the first book in a trilogy by C.S. Johnson*, and I enjoyed it enough that I thought I would share…