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Sir Luke, the dragon slayer.

By jxmartin on Mon, 03 Aug 2026

Luke McGinnis and the fire breathing Dragons. Long ago and far away, in a land that saw dragons flying in the sky and twenty-foot crocodiles swimming...

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Who you know counts for something.

By jxmartin on Fri, 31 Jul 2026

We were playing golf, at the Spring Run Golf Complex in Estero Florida, with friends from Milwaukee Wisconsin. The computer assigned tee time was a...

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The Gift from children

By jxmartin on Sun, 26 Jul 2026

Luke and Finley go shopping Luke and Finley needed to go shopping. Their dad, Mason, was turning 28 next week and they needed a Birthday present...

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Luke & Finley hunt for dinosaurs

By jxmartin on Mon, 13 Jul 2026

Luke & Finley go searching for dinosaurs Luke and Finley McGinnis set out one day in search of dinosaurs. The other kids had called them silly. “...

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26 of my comments have received 27 Great Feedback votes

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Thanks, Insert. I have always

Posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2026

Thanks, Insert. I have always enjoyed the British use of understatement to emphasize a ooint:)

JXM

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Any good magician will have

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2026

Any good magician will have the audience focus on shiny baubels. like a golden white house addition, or other baubels, while the other hand picks your pocket. We have also found out that if a large number of people watch a certain propaganda...

Posted in Queegian Rant

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Short answer. "It is."

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Short answer. "It is." Thanks for reading and commenting. We are who we are now. We maybe whom we thought we were in our past. We hope that we will be what we aspire to be in the future. And in the greater scheme of things, no one will...

Posted in Looking for yesterday

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That is a

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

That is a good observation,Insert. And norrmally, I would employ a summery like this as a denouement at an ending. What I wanted to do, was to clear and set aside a whole matrix of succeeding families, who are actually real...

Posted in Vancouver- City of Adventurers. Ch. # XXI

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Airy,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Airy,

I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.

Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...

Posted in Agism or chicanery?

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We do Insert, but sometimes

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(

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Posted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

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Interesting sketch, Paul. I

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...

Posted in The Other Side of Paradise

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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023

Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?

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Great portrait of the lads

Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023

Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.

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Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)

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Interesting observation, Ewan

Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...