I swim through dreams, foggy and dense, shift awake, shift back to bed, restless and cold; And it is black in the time between day and rest.
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Helping Your Dog Get It Right
Our dogs will sometimes get it wrong when we are training with them. How we deal with those mistakes determines not only how fast they learn the behaviour but also their attitude about working with us. Should we focus on getting the results we want or helping our dog get it right?
Where Are Craigdarroch Castle’s Original Building Plans?
Castle Society members, volunteers, and others have been looking for the long-lost building plans for Craigdarroch Castle for decades. All of the logical public repositories have been checked. The descendants of Craigdarroch’s architects, Warren H. Williams and Arthur L. Smith, have also been contacted. They have no idea where the Castle’s plans ended up.
A Balanced View
If you focus too much on the other person’s flaws, you miss everything you are adding to the equation. Furthermore, you miss all the other person’s positives, perhaps to the point where you reject someone who could be a great partner for you.
Filmmaking 101 Part 6 – Shoot Day
We made a movie. That makes it sound so easy. But from my point of view, it was. I was surrounded by professionals who knew what they were doing. I stayed out of their way, called “action” and “cut”, gave the occasional note to the cast or to Becky, and watched everyone else work extremely hard.
Deconstructing Fiction (For Writers and Readers): Excerpt Deconstructed (5)
This is the fifth in a series of articles in which author Steven Erikson deconstructs, paragraph by paragraph, an excerpt from his most recent novel, Forge of Darkness
Your Secret Weapon Against Story Coincidences
This week’s video talks about why coincidences are a bad thing and offers three tips for avoiding them in your own stories.
Understanding Celiac Disease
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder affecting approximately 1 in 133 people in Canada. It occurs when the body is unable to break down and use a protein called gluten. When gluten cannot be used by the body, it stays in the small intestine and begins to damage the absorptive surface, resulting in an inability […]
Tarmac Meditations #126: Running With John Wayne
Agein’ ain’t for the faint of heart. And it pays to remember that I am not alone as I move into the day, that people care about what I do, about how I am; that John Wayne movies were made up and never true.
The New Truck
On one blistering summer day, an extended family of immigrants considers the prospects and tribulations of life in their adopted country.
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