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Last year, I began a blog series called Cat Editors, after noticing that I am not the only writer with a feline companion who is always in the middle of the writing action. (Below is my editor and our General Manager, Theo.) Several of our beloved Ashland Creek Press authors also have cat editors — among them …
Today’s post is courtesy of Survival Skills author Jean Ryan, whose blog you can find on her website. Enjoy! Time Enough How we view time can be a source of comfort or pain. Many people, particularly Eastern cultures, adhere to the belief that we live any number of lives: time is seen as cyclical and forgiving. Westerners tend to …
Today’s post is courtesy of Survival Skills author Jean Ryan, whose blog you can find on her website. Enjoy! The Lascaux Cave Paintings The hands. That’s what I keep thinking about. Not the exquisite horses and oxen and stags, but the hands, offered singly or in groups, some with truncated fingers—frostbite, scientists say. Were they signatures, the manner in which …
Today’s post is courtesy of Survival Skills author Jean Ryan, whose blog you can find on her website. Enjoy! The Resplendent Quetzal There are six kinds of quetzals in the cloud forests of Central America, and while they are all attractive birds, just one species is known as “resplendent.” Imagine being such a stunning specimen that you are classified …
Today’s post is courtesy of Survival Skills author Jean Ryan, whose blog you can find on her website. Enjoy! Gone Today I came across a photo of a thylacine, commonly known as a Tasmanian Tiger, owing to the stripes on its back and rump. Native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, and largest of the carnivorous marsupials, thylacines were …