Japanese and Chinese Stories

I am currently looking for a traditional Japanese or Chinese story about loyalty. It could be a fairytale, a folktale, a famous historical novel, anything written or told before 1923.   The ideal story for my purposes would be about a young man, a prince, or someone like that, who is torn between two loyalties and has to…

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Friends List News

I notice that, nowadays, my first encounter with a news story is often on my Friends List. It’s quite nice to have both Liberal and Conservative friend’s posting stories, leads to all sorts of perspectives I would otherwise have missed. Though…sometimes, it does make me laugh. ;-)

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First Windmills killing Whooping Cranes. Now, this…

"MADRID (AP) – Spanish vultures are hungry, even starving…European Union laws aimed at halting the spread of Mad Cow disease require the countryside to be kept clear of dead livestock even if they died of natural causes.But Juan Carlos Atienza of the Spanish Ornithological Organization says the lack of animal corpses since the law was…

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Fingerprinted — Third Times A Charm

John and I went down and got fingerprinted by INS again today. Third time. They last 15 months. The last one expired last summer, so that means about 36 months since the first time. This time, God willing, we won’t have to do it again. But, I tell ya, folks…being pregnant is sooo much easier…

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Not Watching the Watchmen

 When I think of the Watchmen, the first thing I remember is the vacation I spent reading it. I think I was at a friend’s house. I know I don’t remember much about the days around it. I spent so many hours just immersed in the book, pouring over the details, trying to catch every…

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Woo-Hoo! I Won Something!!!

  Marietta Publishing and editors Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. JagiLamplighter, Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman are proud to announce that Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad has been awarded the 2009 EPPIE Award for Best Anthology.   Presented this night at the 2009 EPICon in Las Vegas, the award recognizes excellence in electronic publishing. We…

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