HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Next blog, May 17. Writing - Update on Point of View
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Big Night at the family's bar in Sanford, Florida. Lots of costumes expected.
Susie is selling new homes in Titusville (on the Space Coast). Each day she prowls the construction site looking for fossils or interesting rocks. Below, one of her latest haul of calcite rocks - right out from under the bulldozers.
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I've been reading a steampunk series this week, which reminded me: "I wrote one of the those!" (Perhaps Steampunk/Alternative History might be more accurate.) Definitely a shocker to my Regency fans, but I thoroughly enjoyed my one and only venture into a unique version of the years almost directly after George IV.
Miss Araminta Galsworthy encounters a number of surprises at the
home of her new guardian, an inventor like her father. In addition to a
host of strange machines and attacks by people who think her guardian's
invention, the airship Aurora, is the work of the devil, she is expected
to play hostess to a bevy of guests, all of whom seem to be engaged in
treason. And, oh yes, she is expected to marry her guardian.
Immediately.
Minta struggles to adjust to a new husband, new enemies, and new
friends—one a princess who must rise above her rivals for the throne of
England. When the day of revolution arrives, Minta plays a vital role,
but comes perilously close to losing her chance to live a life where
she, not the airship Aurora, is the center of her husband's life.
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SNIPPETS TO SHARE
In the past few months I have been posting bits and pieces to Facebook whose theme might be called, "Save Our Democracy!" This week I am sharing them to my blog, plus some new ones that have not yet been posted. You are invited to share any and all with as many people as you can, as we are in a fight to save Democracy, the basic principle upon which our country was founded. You are also urged to make up snippets of your own and post them where you will.
Although I am a writer, "short and sharp" has never been my strong suit, so I'm sure many of you can do infinitely better, hopefully flooding Social Media with the message that the United States of America will not whimper into obscurity but stand up and fight against the overwhelming odds of megalomania, powerful oligarchs, a cowardly Congress, and our personal fears of being stepped on by giants. Think of yourself tossing tea bales into Boston Harbor. Think of yourself as a Minuteman at Concord and Lexington, issuing the cry against injustice. Crossing a Delaware River in the depths of a winter night . . .
A bit much? Then join the Battle of Words. Let the Internet world know what you think. A few choice words, et voilà, you've joined the battle against Dictatorship. A BATTLE WE MUST WIN BEFORE IT SWEEPS US ALL AWAY and Democracy is down the rabbit hole, lost forever. The citizens of the U S of A along with it.
Below please find a few snippets to share and to inspire you to create your own form of protest.
Grace Note: "Newest Snippets" added just before posting.
Newest Snippets:
1. Government by Executive Order is Dictatorship.
2. Whatever happened to "Government of the People, by the People, for the People"?
3. Trump plays with immigrants' lives, the lives of federal workers. We're next.
4. Trump 2.0. Worst mistake Americans ever made.
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Grace (Blair Bancroft)
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