My goal is to have 9 or 10 songs for the “Bedtime Buckaroos” lullaby songs collection. Currently there are seven completed songs you can hear on my lullaby songs page. Just click on the buckaroos music player and listen for free. This evening I wrote the words and worked out a melody for song number eight: “The Silver Horse”. Sometimes I have just the tiny grain … Read the rest…
Izzy wasn’t sure if he was asleep or awake. But there was something coming straight at him, and it looked like a bright, fiery yellow meteor. His eyes darted to the left. Looked like a deep, dark drop off to nowhere. And that bright, fiery yellow thing was still coming. He crouched down and peeked to his right. Another deep, dark drop off to … Read the rest…
Have you heard what happened to Sombo under the starlit sky? Tiny, smooth ripples at the edge of a large, starlit lake…slender fingers of tall green grass swayed gently back and forth…miniature minnows made swirls and darted away… A rowboat moored to a rickety, pine dock bumped its bow against the post with the bow line around it. Sombo walked slowly and gingerly across … Read the rest…
Are you chasing the dream? Or “the fix?” One morning, about three years ago…or was it three years from now, Ivanto woke up before sunrise to beautiful colors swirling around in his room. They appeared to be encased in glass. There were thousands of these little orbs, and every few seconds one would smash into the wall and burst. And tiny shards of light would … Read the rest…
Word And Music = Travel When I was in school, I remember more than one teacher telling us students how reading could “transport you” to just about any place you wanna go. Word pictures…even those two words put together created word pictures in my head. I was hooked on words, on reading, on transporting myself to new places, new faces, new worlds. I became a … Read the rest…
Are You A “Media” I Should Talk With? I take issue with social media as a means of conversation. There…I said it…and I’m not taking it back. But notice I said “conversation”…not communication. Social media is an awesome way to communicate your message to any person or group you care to connect with. (or is that “with whom you’d like to connect”…I don’t want … Read the rest…
Well, the illustrations continue for my bedtime stories Volume 1 Here’s the potential book cover… Oddly enough…I’ve never considered myself an illustrator. And I certainly wouldn’t put myself on par with other illustrators for kids books like Peter Reynolds…or Shannon Parrish. But I’m having a really good time coming up with my own characters and then drawing them. I’ve just finished the main character … Read the rest…
