by Rain Trueax For this blog, I tend to write articles ahead of time, as ideas come to me. I had one planned for today and changed it af...

by Rain Trueax Sometimes I dream something and wake with an associated idea-- sometimes only roughly associated. It happened this week....

   Feeling like a dinasaur, not understanding the younger generations language the same as mine, I look up their words. Not understandi...

 by Rain Trueax No matter how fantastic your idea and inspiration might be, if you cannot convey them to someone else, they remain yours. ...

  South Dakota Christmas 1901-- my grandmother is second from the right. August on this farm was about the garden, heat, irrigation, sm...

This is a topic I wrote about for Rain Trueax but readers here might also find of interest--  What makes a novel considered literary...

To conclude my mini-tour of some of Oregon's more interesting, back-of-beyond places, I thought I'd combine two that fit particul...

Three Sisters, Central Oregon, near Sisters My opinion is most likely, no, we cannot-- IF we have to have our way, IF there are deep...

This topic is something I wrote for my blog on writing. Sometimes something there though seems apropos for here which requires some tweaki...

Although I have said it before, blog comments are the frosting on the cake for blogs. This is true for me when it's my own blog and also...

Have you ever thought-- somewhere there is a magic symbol, which if you find it will unlock the secrets of life? Or if not all of life, at l...

Each people in their own way try to leave behind their story. Sometimes in words-- oral or written. Sometimes in pictures. When I see symbol...