Celtic Wizard

"Once, many cycles and seasons past, the first in our beloved King Barlow's line, reigned over a few goats, a small heard of cows, an unruly flock of chickens, four crowded hutches of lop-eared rabbits and oh, yes...a garden without equal anywhere in...

If my long-time companion, Oliver were still occupying his favorite rug in my house, I would have sat on the floor with him to describe the awesome beauty of the 2017 Solar Eclipse. Sadly, on so many levels, Ollie is no longer with me, but here's how...

"There was a time," she said in a low, gravelly voice, "the green and blue planet was covered end to end with computers, televisions, mobile telephones, cars that drove themselves, and a giant brain named the Internet, that helped create a human connection...

For most of her eighteen summers, Prudence wore her loneliness like a second skin. Binding her long face tightly in a permanent frown, slouching her shoulders into a sloped curve, moving stiffly, as if every breath and step would pull her apart. Third...

Reading a good book can do several mysterious things; things we are unaware of for the most part. It can stir the imagination from its electronic- age stupor; forcing it like a muscle, to pick up and lift weighty thoughts and ideas. It pokes holes in...

"Oh, don't get me wrong sweet cakes. This Utopia place, sounds like some kinda Ocean City fun park! I mean with all that perfect harmony stuff you're talking about." Franky stopped speaking and she was relieved. He had cultivated a life-long New Jersey...

All of my life, I have been a daydreamer. I find no inspiration from the nocturnal variety of dreaming; mostly they're forgotten and reduced to snippets in any case. I might have been scared witless and awaken with a sudden jolt, but within seconds, the...

He enters silently, leaving no trace of his having touched me while I slept. He is without conscience in the damage he inflicts his only concern is marking me, the next day, next month, next year. Marked with the passage of his unseen, withered hand I...

"It's no matter, my pet. One day you'll find yourself besieged with offers of marriage. A dear girl like you, with a heart as big as the sky above! Here, have another cake, love." Her mother's answer to any challenge in life was a sweetie of some sort....

"Are ye proud of yerself, ya ninny!" James Dunner was livid and not about to let his mate off the hook for what he saw as his total lack of good sense. "I specially told ya NOT ta open ta caffin, until Matilda got 'ere to keep tings on the track. Now,...