Title: It’s That Good
Fandom: The Young Riders
Characters: Teaspoon Hunter
Prompt: 095 – New Year
Word Count: 637
Rating: PG13
Summary: Teaspoon celebrates the Day of the Dead
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Title: Take Me With You
Fandom: The Young Riders
Characters: Running Buck Cross
Prompt: 068 - Lightning
Word Count: 742
Rating: PG13
Summary: Buck is surprised on a visit to the Kiowa Camp


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Okay.. i loved a TON of my teachers... i was sooo very lucky to have AMAZING teachers all through me life...

but there is one that really got me into what i love doing... writing...

and believe it or not... she was a History Teacher...

high school european history ... we each had a country that we were responsible for... I was England.. .my friend Jane was Ireland...

for our final papers we could write a 10 page research paper on our own

or combine with one or two people and write a historical fiction story where one character came from each of the represented countries...

Jane and i had a BLAST... we only had the two of us... we had over 30 pages... including family tree for each character... we made a cover.. had it bound at kinkos... big time stuff!!! it was AWESOME fun... for years until she moved to a different school she had our story in her office as an example of what to do... but I had no idea how much I'd get into writing... darn/thank you Ms. Dorsey!

hmm... haven't done one yet... Lisa? Liz? Dee? My long driving trip girls?
Dixie Chicks - esp 'wide open spaces'
Indigo Girls - all my faves, esp - Ghost
Nickel Creek - esp Lighthouse
Jo Dee Messina - all the fun dance ones
Dierks Bently... he's made for road trips
Josh Turner ... same
Tim McGraw... everything
Shania Twain - Don't
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Heart - These Dreams
Johnny Hates Jazz - the whole CD
Culture Club - all the fun dance stuff
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Men at Work - it's a Mistake
Mr. Mister - Kyrie
Chicago - a few funs ones...
all the karaoke faves..
and more

My last trip to Washington DC... i went to a Flamenco performance at a local Tappas bar in Alexandria... I was sitting alone at a table and a gentleman and this two friends from work literally picked up my plates and brought me to their table... they ordered more food and wine and when they left they paid for the whole thing..

i was strange and kind of odd.. but we had some fun conversations... the flamenco was amazing... and the food and wine... heavenly...

only later did i find out that the guy who paid for my food and fun was a multi-millionaire... wah?

Doing things... :) sound crazy? it's true... taking an idea and running with it... that's my curse :)

Writing...

during Chinese Civ in college, I was sitting there listening to a lecture when I had an image in my head of a sword swinging through the air... that spawned a huge novel idea... lol

how to build a radio from a coconut
how to get food no matter where you are (and i'm not talking about Bear Grillis kind of 'food')
how to get rescued in one day or less.
how to guild a boat that will get you to civilization.... or Esme's island
and a notebook to write down the experience so i can write my novel *cough*

Funny, I was watching one of those food shows and they were taking about making SOBA noodles in Japan and how it takes years to master it... the individual steps that one goes through to make the dough and roll it, cutting it into the perfect width and then cooking it to the perfect consistency...

when they asked the head chef what was the one thing any noodle maker needed to make the perfect noodle and do it again and again... the man bowed at the waist, a single movement of deft grace and he replied simply, "Passion."

Stunning... it was simply stunning, the affect that the words had on me... what does it take to put together the words again and again to try to convey the voices in my mind... my heart? Passion...

I can't claim perfection or anywhere near, but I can always hope to show my passion.

from MTV site:

Do their opponents “get it”?

Barack Obama: “Now, I don’t believe that Senator McCain doesn’t care what’s going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn’t know. … It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.”

Andrew Shepherd: “I’ve known Bob Rumson for years, and I’d been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy shouting at the rain was that he simply didn’t get it. Well, I was wrong, Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it; Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it.”

Our take: Shepherd is a bit harder on poor Bob Rumson than the gentleman from Illinois. Obama took great pains to portray Senator McCain as an honorable if perhaps ignorant public servant while President Shepherd damns Rumson derisively and decisively.

Ready for a fight

Obama: “If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next commander-in-chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have.”

Shepherd: “We’ve got serious problems — and we need serious people. And if you want to talk about character, Bob, you better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I’ll show up.”

Our take: Both men took a long hard look at the American people (ahem, the camera) and issued a challenge to their opponent. Again, Obama’s rhetoric was a bit more subtle than Shepherd’s “we need serious people” dis, but you have to remember that Rumson was grilling the president’s girlfriend over the coals. Say what you will about McCain’s tactics, at least he’s kept his attacks focused squarely on his opponent and not on Michelle Obama.

“Serious” similarities

Obama: “The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook.”

Shepherd: “We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.”

Our Take: We get it. It’s time to get serious.

The big finish

Obama: “Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.”

Shepherd: “My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I am the president.”

Our take: Shepherd’s finish is an undeniable fist-pump provoker, but he committed cardinal sin numero uno for any person seeking the highest office in the land. Always, we repeat always say “God Bless America.” And he wasn’t even wearing an American flag pin. Our guess? Shepherd didn’t win re-election.

text from President Elect Obama's speech 1/18/09:

That is the belief with which we began this campaign, and that is how we will overcome what ails us now. There is no doubt that our road will be long. That our climb will be steep. But never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during times of comfort and ease, but by the right we do when the moment is hard.

text from President Josiah Bartlett's speech in 20 hours in America Part II:

but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great.

similar??? hmmm

ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL! oh yeah...

not just 'cuz there were ACTUAL aliens running around... talk about a great tourist atmosphere.. i think I'd totally enjoy the 'theater-like' atmosphere and have a blast with Alien Tourists :)

Edward really needs to listen to his sister.. life would be sooo much easier!

Miracle on 34th street.

the original NOT the new one...

cause i'm a postal child so seeing the post office save the day rocked!

Raye

Title: I Wish…
Fandom: The Young Riders
Characters: James Butler Hickok, Lou/Louise McCloud
Prompt: 046 - Star
Word Count: 1247
Rating: PG13
Summary: Coming home from Willow Springs, Lou sees something in the night sky that gets Jimmy thinking.
Author's Notes: Set After the episode “Color Blind”
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WASSAIL! yummmmm

The Oklahoma City Bombing... I was in college at the time and watched the coverage and read the articles like everyone else, but over time it 'blurred' for me... it wasn't until I visited the city and against my resolution NOT to go into the museum i went...

I had intended to see the chairs and take some pictures, but lulled into a sense of 'peace' i went in and once inside the museum and exposed to the memories that I hadn't really dealt with... it was just too much.

The little shoes and discarded coffee mugs. The little bits of life we pick up and put down thousands of times and yet for those unfortunate folks they'll never do that again... never call their husbands to complain he's late picking them up or doesn't do enough... never hound their kids to finish their homework or come home before curfew... never get angry over petty little things again. It hurt. A physical pain that nearly bowled me over.

How could I have overlooked the depth of my sorrow for so many years?

The Challenger Explosion... again another moment you overlook. We'd been gearing up for weeks.. months... and there was a certain anticipation as we ran up the stairs determined to watch the lift-off in Mr. Hu's class. He had the best TV. I wasn't halfway up the stairs when someone shouted down from the balcony rail that it was gone... gone? how can the shuttle just be gone?

Sure enough, they played that footage over and over and over until it was all I could think of... in one moment... they were gone.

YEARS later when I had a chance to visit Houston, TX I went to NASA and picked up the mission patch from the Challenger and brought it home to my son. I tried to explain to him what it meant to me... an astronaut from Hawaii... someone we could identify with... someone who could lift up our eyes and our hopes to the heavens... gone...

My little boy looked up at me and gave my hand a pat as it shook from my tears. "He lives in the stars, Mommy." And it's true... some nights when I look up into the stars... they're all there.

oh a number of shows come to mind.. but yeah.. Firefly or 4400 (if they hadn't destroyed it)

Title: The White Flag
Fandom: The Young Riders
Characters: James Butler Hickok, Emma Shannon, Sam Cain, Lou McCloud
Prompt: 019 - White
Word Count: 997
Rating: PG13
Summary: Sam and Jimmy have their own minds about who Emma should end up with…
Author's Notes: There is a single AU point in this story, which will continue on in future entries. It deals with some of the 'real history' of the PX.


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