According to reports, a mysterious priest came to the scene of a car accident and at the request of the victim who was trapped inside the vehicle and about to reach a critical juncture in the rescue attempt, prayed for her and two other emergency workers. A miracle ensued.
The day after President Obama toured an Amazon fulfillment center facility in Chattanooga, TN, Amazon released a free Kindle Single with an interview. During his visit, the President gave a speech on jobs and corporate tax rates. This happened as Amazon announced its plans to hire over 5000 new full-time employees. The controversy arises from the independent bookstores and other retailers who consider Amazon’s pricing “predatory.”
Being a writer, you can get stuck in your own little world and lose perspective. As I’ve said many times, it can be a lonely business.
But as soon as I arrived, I knew things were going to be great.
I was never really a fan of zombie stories in books or movies. Watching re-animated corpses go cannibalistic was just never interesting to me in terms of entertainment. Perhaps, for some reason, I thought these stories were “supernatural” in nature, making it creepy on both the physical and spiritual levels. But then, I learned that it could also take on a SciFi, or speculative fiction angle, as it did in I AM LEGEND, and it didn’t necessarily involve reanimation of corpses…
This Fourth of July as I watch the fireworks going off, I’m reminded of my childhood when it wasn’t quite illegal for us to use firecrackers, bottle rockets, and even M80s. Were they scary? Sometimes, and yet my parents never forbade us to use them.
I grew up in the 70s and looking back, it’s a miracle I survived. I never even heard of a helmet for riding a bike, and I’d ditched my training wheels at the tender age of four. We could ride around the neighborhood all day without our parents even questioning where we were going.