Cedar Writes

Category: childhood

  • Children’s Book Recommendations

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    Timely for Christmas, timeless for other events.  Let me put the following list in some context. You’re seeing the cleaned up version of two long-running conversations from a closed group for children’s book recommendations. This is something we seem to do on a regular basis, so I grabbed it, took names and identifiers off, and…

  • Artfully: Day 12

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    Today’s dragon was created with Adobe Illustrator, which is… I don’t know if I like this. Oh well. Work has been progressing nicely on Dragon Noir, I’ve added 3800 since yesterday, and plan to do another 2000 tonight.  Wizbun drew a sigh of relief when the flames from the tiny dragon stopped, and then dropped…

  • Childhood Memories

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    This is a throwback post, reposting an essay of mine that originally appeared on the Stonycroft blog. It’s my memories of a day when I was about six years old. Today, I could really do with a peaceful, lazy time like that… Three final exams today. I won’t be home until late. I’m going to…

  • Artfully: Day 9

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    Continued from yesterday… Wizbun stood staunchly, gripping his staff tightly, as the bright red box began to smoke slightly. At the lower corner, the paper turned black, and then burst into flames. Frantically, Wizbun aimed his magic staff at the conflagration, extinguishing it with a quick blast. But now the box let forth an angry…

  • Women and Children First

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    Tradition dictates that when a ship is sinking, women and children are the first to go into the lifeboats. Men and the crew stay with the ship if there is not enough room. Honor and duty, and a generation of manners we are fast forgetting. But what if there are no lifeboats? And just who…

  • Review: Twisty Christmas

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    I know, it’s Monday. I do reviews on Friday. Shh…. Be vewy vewy quiet. I am studying! Also, I saw that this book I’d been asked to review is free as an ebook today, so I thought I’d jump on it and give my readers the chance to pick up a very sweet collection of…

  • Artfully: Day 7

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    And today I did get to paint people! It was cold, but at least the sun was shining. There were songs, and jingle bells, and me, with cold fingers, making spirits brightly visible on faces.

  • Christmas Cookies

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    I’ve been cooking for thirty years now. I can vividly remember the first thing I baked from scratch by myself: a three-layer german chocolate cake with coconut-pecan icing. My father’s favorite, and I was nine. Skipping forward a few years to high school, and in a small school with an hour study hall, where you…

  • Saturday Link Round-Up

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    Ride on, cowgirl… I’ll start it off with a little piece of tech that flew by on my fb timeline, and caught my eye. This little drone fits in the palm of your hand, and can capture HD video. The start of the art tech, and this is by no means alone, scanning the related…

  • For Me, But Not For Thee – David Pascoe

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    I should preface this by mentioning that I had never seen the first three until I was nineteen, and they stuck me in the Electronics dept of the store I was working in, and it was me, and a tall geeky guy who sadly I have forgotten his name, but he was very nice to…

  • Naughty Reindeer

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    Happy Black Friday from the Curmudgeon’s Corner! Here’s what Rudolph thinks of this particular day…

  • Review: Unexpected Enlightenment

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    I’m reviewing two books today instead of one, because I started book two last night and it sucked me right in and I finished it! Good thing there isn’t a book three yet or I might not have slept at all. Yes, this is a recommendation, right off the bat. I’ve really enjoyed both books,…