Raindrops on Roses

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Author has written 16 stories for Kids, and Essay.

"Chasing Windmills: Someone who pursues after folly, chasing the unattainable, searching always for things that are forever beyond reach."

I chase windmills.

I write stories with happy endings...I believe in a world of my own creation and design, a world where "The End" has no sway and no power over those in its care. A place where I can write and create and somehow carry with me a place where no-one ever has to die...and no one is ever left behind.

I know of pain and joy and laughter and hurt, I know of loss and courage and the will to continue forward. I know of mistakes and those decisions that I am so very glad I had the forsight or luck to make.

I know the mysteries of the great Lantern Waste, and the power and majesty of a world dubbed Narnia...

I know the stories of tattered rabbits who long to become real, and the tales of little mice who find the elusive bit of twist needed for the completion of a grand and beautiful coat.

I believe in sunny afternoons and the chimes of clocktower bells at the University. I believe in children and the magic they imbue the world about them with. I believe in contentment born of love and work and time; but I also know of bone-wracking loneliness that is akin to a misery so acute as to nearly be physically painful.

I wish on stars and I talk to animals. I watch the clouds scudd by overhead, and fancy shapes in the fluffy whiteness above set in skies of impossibly cerulean blue.

I believe in Happily Ever Afters that are happy enough and good enough, and I wonder what happens after "The End". What about the arguments over the washing up? What about the lazy days spent lolling about doing nothing much? What about the lives and futures and histories that come before, and continue ever afterward even though my bit of the story has ended?

I see the world as it is, and I see the world as it might be...and I write the stories that somehow help to fill the chasm that lies between.

I write stories to the children I may never have, but that have been given lives and dreams and shape and form in my mind. I write stories to bits of shadow and whimsey, and share them with children who are real and whole and alive in the here and now.

Because bright, young smiles, muddy shoe laces, bedtime stories, quiet afternoons spent with a small child curled against me as we read the stories that never lose their magic; and the feel of soft fingers in my own make my world go 'round, and the ride worth the trouble.

I remember their names, their faces, the smiles and the tears and the everyday wonder of their lives. They grow up and leave me behind, but I remember them as they were, and the shades of their childhood haunt my willing imagination.

I know about the edges, those places on the borders of a life, between what has been, and what will someday be. I know about the flimsy, pale curtain that divides death from love, and how easily and often that curtain is sometimes breached.

And so I chase the windmills...

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1. Love, Pain, & Hope
The illusion, the fairy tale, the whimsy and the wonder is gone, leaving only coldness and misery in it’s wake. Love hurts. Always.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 777 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 1-7-08 - Published: 1-7-08

2. Remembrances of You
All of these things I have left of you...
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 221 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-14-07 - Published: 10-14-07

3. You'll Never Tell Them
You know you’ll never tell them the truth. That when asked, you will lie, every time, always and forever.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-3-07 - Published: 10-3-07

4. They Grew Old
They grew old, I left them for a time, and when I returned, they had changed, time had come and gone for them, leaving its traces and trappings behind.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 4-30-07 - Published: 4-30-07

5. Childhood's Embrace reviews
The recollections and memoirs of childhood touch.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 463 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 3-7-07 - Published: 3-7-07

6. Words On a Page reviews
To express simple words, and simple emotions on a simple page...A risk, a fall, a leap of faith...for the grand and glorious prize of recognition and connection with strangers we may only ever meet through mere but intrepid words on a page.
Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 539 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-18-07 - Published: 2-18-07

7. The Broken Between
How does one both value a life, and yet also somehow come to understand the singular mercy of a death?
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 883 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-16-07 - Published: 2-16-07

8. Once Upon A Time » reviews
Once upon a time...in a time that was not so long ago, in a place that is not so very far away, there existed a wonderful and magical world full of talking animals, magic pocket watches, and mysterious adventures just waiting around the bend!
Complete - Kids - Fiction Rated: K - English - Fantasy/Spiritual - Chapters: 9 - Words: 23,942 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 2-10-07 - Published: 11-7-05

9. Yesterdays
I can remember, those precious, fleeting days of my childhood, wrapped up in faded newspaper, carefully tucked into worn old boxes, and stowed away in that attic of my mind, that place I keep all the yesterdays.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 391 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 2-7-07 - Published: 2-7-07

10. Stars reviews
I know, on that level that retains my common sense, that the stars are farther away than I will ever go, farther than I can ever dream of traveling...
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-30-07 - Published: 1-30-07

11. Caring for a Ghost reviews
…and I still look for her, still half expect to see her when I enter a room, at the top of the stairs when I come home from work, as I stand in the kitchen and make dinner…
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 410 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-22-07 - Published: 1-22-07

12. Photographs and Memories reviews
Treasure wrapped in sticky cellophane, laid down between two old leather covers, faded marks of times and lives and love gone by.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 357 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 1-9-07 - Published: 1-9-07

13. Buttercups and Gravestones reviews
...yellow buttercups over and covering the hillside, lending their sunny yellow to the otherwise gray, green and white landscape of gravestones and spring grass.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 304 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-26-06 - Published: 12-26-06

14. And Christmas Comes Once More » reviews
Perhaps it is part of the remembering. That the silly longing is nothing more than the very essence of memory itself. A picture of a time gone by, one that can never quite be recaptured again.
Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 655 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-24-06 - Published: 12-24-06

15. The Last reviews
...With nary a farewell or a backward glance…our childhood died quietly on some distant afternoon.
Complete - Essay - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 315 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 12-22-06 - Published: 12-22-06

16. Simpkin's Journey
Ever wondered what awaits those precious furry companions after their lives on this plane have ended? This is a story of one such journey...
Complete - Kids - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,069 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-15-03 - Published: 10-15-03

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