A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. –Jean de la Fontaine Labor Day. To me, this holiday invokes the concept of destiny – boy, that’s a loaded word. Everyone, raise your hands – how many of you feel that the job/profession at which you labor is an answer … Continue reading Destiny’s Children

As above, so below – traditionally attributed to the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismegistus My first impression, after the initial shock of the recent burning of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in France, was that of Quasimodo, in the 1939 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, proclaiming “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” as he displayed his … Continue reading Sacred Sanctuaries

A dream I had from many years ago was the inspiration for my teen two-book fantasy series, The Rebels Duet. In the dream, there was a family of alien humanoid people traveling on a spaceship to earth. The family was composed of a mother and many children (in my novel, I honed the number down … Continue reading Awakening the Seeker

    In this sequel to Rebels from Olympus, to Justus Appleyard, as the half-divine son of Mars, the God of War, it was not all about flying horses and stately goddesses eating chocolates. Destiny. That was what stumbled Justus to give up on everything: his Captain Fortis comic book series, working out, school work, … Continue reading The Rebels’ Call synopsis9