The fifth and final installment of the video and music preview series for Reflections and Tails was supposed to be about moose. However, it was surprisingly difficult to find moose videos that appropriately captured their essence in the story, and the genre of moose music is meager at best. So, I decided instead I would [...]
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Animal Stories: Moose plus Music Soundtrack
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, tagged Baxter State Park, BWCA, Chase This Light, David Cook, Doc Holladay, Hard to Believe, I'm Still Here, Jimmy Eat World, moose, Needtobreathe, Nickel Creek, Reflections and Tails, Stones Under Rushing Water, Susanne Gerry, The Exchange on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Animal Stories: Book Cover Revealed and Wolves
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, tagged animal art, Bernard Walton, big bad wolf, celtic woman, e-book, e-book cover, freedom, Lisa Kelly, Reflections and Tails, sing baby to sleep, teach wolf to howl, three little pigs, wolf song, wolfman, wolves on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, today we reveal the book cover! Of course today’s music and video hints are all about wolves. The secret is out; they have many sides. So, starting with the fairy tales we know by heart, I take you back to the big, bad wolf of childhood then to the fine line between the [...]
Animal Stories: Dads and Dude Ranches
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, tagged dude ranch, keller-gospel, Reflections and Tails, Return to Snowy River, Sylvan Dale, The Dad Horse Experience on April 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This third set of video hints about the upcoming e-book (title to be revealed in the next post) is about horses. Or rather, it is about a particular human experience with horses, namely the dude ranch. The first 25-second video shows the ranch that my family visited when I was in high school, and it [...]
Animal Stories: About Vampires?
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, tagged Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Place of Skulls, Reflections and Tails, The Animals, vampire bats on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Post #2 in the video/music hint series is about vampires. Well, vampire bats, anyway. They are cute, they are delicate, they are misunderstood. Just watch the first video of a bat grooming his ears like a cat and feel the “awwww” well up inside you. If that doesn’t do it for you, watch the second [...]
Animal Stories: About Sheep
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, tagged David Rozsa, extreme sheep herding, Kázsmér Zsuzsanna, March of the Sheep, Reflections and Tails, surfing sheep on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am excited to be working with an artist on an illustrated e-book of animal stories for grown-ups, to be released early this summer. Stay tuned for the title and the book cover, but in the meantime, the series of posts to follow will feature animal-related music and videos that hint, however obliquely, at the [...]
The Flip Side of Stability and the Seasons
Posted in Light Menu, Original Fiction, Politics & Government, Science & Spirituality on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There is a common saying in New England and East Tennessee: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. That serves as a good analogy for this week, which started with an old story lying in the graveyard and ended with a new story winning a contest. Offer anyone in New England or East [...]
The Beauty of Bridges
Posted in Light Menu, Science & Spirituality on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t love heights, but I love bridges. To me, the middle of a bridge is the most beautiful spot in the world, literally and figuratively. Because bridges aren’t just for getting from one place to the next; they provide a vantage point to see both where you were and where you are going — [...]
The World by a 6-year-old
Posted in Light Menu on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I started this blog with my niece, Keara, in mind, and have used it as a place to work out some of my thoughts and observations about the world. Today I’d like to share some of Keara’s thoughts and observations, through a collection of her poems — spelling intact. POEMS ONLY by Keara Kids Kids [...]
Everyday Utopia
Posted in Light Menu, Politics & Government on March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My 6-year-old niece announced one day, “Whatever is good for Krista is good for everyone.” If only that were true… – Everyone would know how to swing dance. – We’d only say please and thank you and sorry when we meant it. – Each political party would assume the other party is [...]
Bad parking is not a crime
Posted in Light Menu on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The worst part of my commute to work is the parking garage. I spend a lot of time backing up, straightening around, and getting out just to get back in and try again. I’m generally a benign driver — always use my blinker, don’t cut people off in traffic – but I’ve never been good [...]
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