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My current job is in the produce department for a local grocery store that targets foodies and other people who care about the quality they buy. Walking through our department you will notice everything is beautiful. The produce is of the highest quality, and it is presented in a manner that speaks to the standardsContinue reading “Be The One”

I believe this is why we exist, irrespective of any belief in deity. I believe we are at our best when we live our life inside out, helping others and not ourselves. It can be as simple as giving them the gift of being heard. It is my experience that this is an area whereContinue reading “Love Others”

My love of reading started when I was very young. My mother would read books to us. Ever since then I have read. Much of my reading, perhaps all of it lol, through my teen and early twenties was for pleasure. Like many guys, I was into fantasy and science fiction. Once my career startedContinue reading “Read Widely”

The power of this routine begins to take hold on me. On the one hand it is a bit silly. It is a list of eight or ten things I do every morning. Sometimes they seem almost random and the thought occurs to me, “Really? Why did I pick these things?” But I did themContinue reading “The Power of Routine”

Prologue From whence cometh the Overlord, or what has come before The Mother of the overlord The little girl lay sleeping, the campfire that once cooked her families dinner and warmed them now a few faintly glowing coals. Her parents, one on either side of her had just been horribly murdered. What you would haveContinue reading “The Overlord’s Second Son”

The Wizard’s Ball happened once in a lifetime. Well, once in a wizard’s lifetime. Thalia, had never dreamed that she would attend the Andaryn Wizard’s Ball when she first took up the Order. Yet here she stood at the entryway, courtesy of old Maldric Thunderguts finally shuffling off his mortal coil. Thalia handed her invitationContinue reading “Thalia”

He sat in a chair near the door because it was the only place in the small coffee shop that was available to sit. The chair itself was comfortable enough. The thing that made this chair the last one to be taken was the fact that it was the middle of winter and while thereContinue reading “The Woman At The Coffee Shop”

I was sitting on the edge of the planter just outside the Bloody Bucket just watching the day go by.  I couldn’t have been more than twelve or thirteen at the time.  The Bloody Bucket was the local tavern in town.  It was right on the waterfront and there was always something happening there.  I liked to sit outsideContinue reading “The Ridge Walker”