February 2012
S M T W T F S
« Jan    
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
26272829  

Weight Loss Pills – An Insightful Overview

As to top quality, as I said previously mentioned, when you make your own items you handle what goes in and what stays out. It is constantly grasped when ultrafiltration mechanism are not capable to your stink for h2o, pure drinking water makers not to point out water cleansers and even filtration program must weekly [...]

O’Shaughnessey: A Boy and His Leprechaun – Excerpt from Chapter 2

There was nothing to do now but tell Daddy all about the morning’s surprise visitor and hope they couldn’t put seven-year-old boys in the loony-bin. So, Bobby did tell him.

When last we left seven-year-old Bobby Mahoney, he’d just awakened to find a leprechaun sitting on his bed-post. Introductions were made and Bobby was [...]

I Can Teach Anyone to Draw. Really.

The truth is that most of drawing is seeing and more importantly observing. In the words of Sherlock Holmes, “most people see but do not observe.” But, observation is vital to drawing. So the first step is training the eye to observe.

Drawing demonstration during a reading of my children's book, "O'Shaughnessey: [...]

From All Things Evil, a dramanovella: Excerpt from Chapter 4

“She refuses to repent of her sin or even see it as a sin,” Bergeron said, circling the table. “She cannot call upon the name of even one saint. Refuses to call on them. Claims disbelief in them. Paternity cannot be established since she will not name the father. [...]

O’Shaughnessey: A Boy and His Leprechaun. Excerpt from Chapter 1

In which seven-year-old Bobby Mahoney is introduced to the leprechaun, O’Shaughnessey while in a half-dream state between imagination and reality.

Bobby Mahoney awoke one morning to find a leprechaun sitting on his bed post. Now to you or me the sight of a leprechaun on our bedpost might seem a bit odd. But you [...]

One Summer Football Game – 1957

We all went to the Ingleside Baptist Church where Brother Tom Pennell preached that the Bible said the races should remain separate … Negroes were intended by God to be servants of the other two races …. It never occurred to us that he might be wrong.

In the summer of 1957, I was a [...]

Excerpt from “The Faerie Circle” – On Irish Storytellers

“..after the gossip and the jokes and the complaints about the English, my Liam would cough, clean his glasses and sit in his chair, that wicker chair beside the hearth, and he’d begin. ‘In a time before time was …’ he’d say, and we were there. Wherever his voice took us we would [...]

From All Things Evil – A Dramanovella. Excerpt: Chapter 3

The priest felt he was no longer Bergeron, at least any Bergeron he knew. Some other creature, a younger and more primordial creature seemed to inhabit him, one who looked and acted as Bergeron, but was as distant from the restrained and righteous priest as Adam was from the Serpent, and here, with this [...]

From All Things Evil – An Excerpt, Chapter 2

And there she hit on the crux of his dilemma. It was his humanity that was the cause of all his anguish. That was his curse. He had taken seriously the command to be in the world but not of it. How can one take joy in the things of this world [...]

O’Shaughnessey: The Faerie Circle” A Magical Adventure for All Ages.

“Laureen had begun to notice something in her daughter that disturbed her. She seemed to have forgotten how to play. Headmistress Evangeline Drysdale was first to notice. ‘It isn’t easy being a Golden Child’ she’d said to Laureen, ‘When you are as smart as Margaret is, accomplishments are taken for granted that would be praised in other girls. Much is expected of her. She is afraid of being wrong, takes getting less that an ‘A’ on her assignments personally and that makes her less able to take chances. She needs to take it all less seriously. She needs to play.”