RingWord

this

can be

an adventure!

Certainly, it is an invitation to touch base -- to bring the rest of us up to speed ... to tell us a good story ...

. I'll bite
.. & straightforward, too
... it was the filming of The Lord of the Rings that fueled my imagination's fires. It was number one son who gave them voice: you could contact your class and you could all go see the movie at the same time ... where ever you are ... . California, Utah, Washington, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa . ...

I raised my sons -- albeit, sometimes, somewhat foolishly -- on tales of the Fellowship ... not merely of elves and dragons and dwarves and kings ... but ... too, of marble quests and buried mold and sword duels atop the gymnasium

chuliulupe

it felt like that, in early October. In Donaldson. Celeste and I enroute to Kendallville IN ... for a storytelling gig at the Kendallville Apple Festival. Brightly coloured leaves. Rain. And a breeze that was honed to a razor's edge. We were on 30. We were going that way. We turned right at the Ancilla Domini sign. Donaldson. Over the tracks ... we almost missed the sign; I've already forgotten what it said. I remember only No Trespassing ... and something about guard dogs that I reasoned was more huff than puff and stuff

I tried to get permission.

I stopped by the old Brother's House ... but the two women who lived there spoke no English. They were polite --

All right ... they were a little bit scary

We drove down the road anyway