Love Dragons
It was Candy Hearts Day. The second one to have rolled around since I entered the Creators Realm, but my first one since I started seeing Nori. I was sitting in front of an ancient desk engraved with symbols. My Creation Book was opened in front of me, and I held a rainbow quill* in […]
Rodent Prognostication Day
Happy Groundhog Day! The day when gobs of otherwise reasonable people, gather in the cold, awaiting that magical moment when a quaintly garbed gentleman pulls a bleary eyed rodent from its burrow in order to prognosticate if there will be an early spring or not. I first discovered this quirky day back in high school […]
Secret Ingredient
I’ve written many times about my lack of cooking skills. I can heat up water for tea. I’ve gotten pretty good at making a seasonal loaf of bread, which—for me—are more like glorified cakes than real kneaded, shaped and risen creations. But, that’s about it. My journey to semi-literacy in the kitchen didn’t come easy. […]
Happy Bird Day
Hello January Babies! You are truly lucky to be born in January. Not only is your birthday free of being over-shadowed by the present-wrapping and merry-making of December, but you have National Bird Day to celebrate in your birth month to boot! Now you might not be much into birds, but you should be. Birds […]
Holidays of Cratersville
The last Jolly Zings of the season are flittering about my head. They’re dropping their remaining bits of glitter and tinsel upon me as I’m writing these words. Once their magic reservoirs are empty they’ll be gone. The Jolly Zings appear along with the rest of their festive compatriots on the day after Turkey Day—also […]
Living the Rainbow Life
I live in a troubled Realm where deep divisions and unrest currently hold sway. You might live in a similar place yourself. This is why I want to share with you a dream that I have. This dream involves a place where peace, love and harmony reign. Where the weak aren’t squashed by the powerful. […]
Life is a Game of Cards
My father was a great magician. Thus, it should come as no surprise that I had more than a few occasions to test his skills at card playing. It started out when I was young with Go Fish where every matching set of cards we would put down would instantly transform into trinkets we would […]
Flower Power
The Flower Power movement was born during a turbulent time in American history. It represented peaceful protest against a divisive war. The war was not only on the battlefield, but on the streets where clashes over what the country could be—and should be—took place. I would like to revisit this concept and repurpose it for […]
Bring Your Dreams to Life
My father had a book. The book was quite large and to untrained eyes it would appear as nothing more than an ancient grimoire. My father kept this disguised book hidden beneath a velvet-draped table. My sister and I discovered it the summer before third grade. Whenever we visited his theater, we would steal into […]
Here Be Love
I keep a small, parchment* map tacked to the wall of my room. It’s a map of Earth that was created by my sister Poppy while we were teenagers in Cratersville. I had used this beautifully illuminated map to fulfill one of her dearest wishes on the day of the Winter Solstice shortly after I […]
