I have always been addicted to the learning curve

Fairy tales are important--
not because they suggest that witches and dragons exist, but because they remind us evil will be defeated.

I'm a wife and mother who writes in corners-- both of the house and of the day. Words are my way of imposing order on reality.

"I think this is the prettiest world-- so long as you don’t mind a little dying..."

Advice from the unqualified

Images of Evil

People Don't Understand Fairy Tales Anymore

In Defense of "Movie" Dates

Disney vs. the Real Stories

Human Words

Why is Sheltering a bad word?

"Halflings!" laughed the Rider that stood beside Eomer. "Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children's tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?"

"A man may do both," said Aragorn. "The green earth say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"

(Lord of the Rings, Book Three)

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
...

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
~ Pearl S. Buck

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
~ Emily Dickinson

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
~ John Locke

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling