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Tilting at Windmills: Just Saying…

I started thinking about kids and drugs and parents and teen suicides and all manner of depressing statistics that characterize ..


Tilting at Windmills: Beloved Paper

Last night, I was hunched over Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, enjoying the pleasant feel of the heavy tome on ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS : Princess Lilly Out of Water

She crept through the tall grass, as silent as the falling of a feather. Far off in the distance shone ..


Tilting at Windmills: Halloween...Boo!

Although time and again, we have been told that Halloween originated as a Celtic religious celebration, we respectfully poo poo ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Accidental Invention of Autumn - Encore

I was thinking and thinking and thinking about what to write in honor of autumn, and then I realized that ..


Tilting at Windmills: Crying at the Movies

I have been crying all week. It started when I was searching through movie options on TV, and suddenly came ..


Tilting at Windmills: Theodore’s Star - Encore

Here is a small enchantment I wrote years ago, that I hope will put a smile on your face. The ..


TILTING AT WINDMILLS: The Case of the Greedy Daughter

All of the houses on Poplar Road are large, were built in the late 1800s to early 1900s, and are ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Case of the Arsonist in the Embassy

There were times when an attorney would hire Charles G. King Associates to determine the origin and cause of a ..


Tilting at Windmills: The Case of the Flaming Grass Skirt

At times, an incident is so ridiculous that even when someone has been injured, it is hard to work up ..


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