My mother is going into the Mayo Clinic today for an operation to remove her Melanoma. Doctors will be there to perform instant biopsies on what is removed to verify that all of it has been taken out, and to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2017
The Peloran are a strange lot, or at least the ones that I’ve spent time with. Most are content to sit back and let life pass them by until someone gives them no choice but to fight. They never start[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James had no wish to live in space before The War began. His plan from the beginning was to invest his earnings back home, fight until Wars End and then retire back to his farm and rebuild it after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things I like most about Mary is her personality. She has all the abilities that any cyber has, but she doesn’t flaunt them. She spends as much of her time as possible in the real world, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The vast majority of Peloran have never left their adoptive home planets since their last war ended. They have no effective industrial base, and live in an extremely primitive nature. Most of them live alone or in family groups of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jesse James has no known relation to the famous historical figure, but he did prove to be an amazingly good Cowboy when the time came. He had literally bought the farm in his native Kansas during the decades of peace[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mary is one of those cybers that decided to pick a pilot that had no interest in ever spending most of his life in space. He was happy with the life of a simple Kansas farmer until a piece of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once the war ended, the Peloran and their cousins were alone, surrounded by a sea of death in the stars where two great alien civilizations had once lived. The Albion and Ennead were simply gone, and the surviving supersoldiers began[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope you still listen to T&J when you read this. I grew up listening to them sing. They started doing USO tours during The War, and they kept it up afterwards. They always have time to sing for their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have had friends, foes, and sycophants all my life. I never fully trusted any of them. I do not believe I knew how to trust back then. My family did not teach that lesson. Jack tells this story about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…