Tag: magic

The Joy of Childhood

There’s a gumball machine at my workplace, one of the good old fashioned ones where each gumball just costs a quarter. Watching the glee on children’s faces as they clutch coins between their fingers and run towards it always makes me smile. The excitement of candy, the anticipation while trying to guess what color gumball […]

Treasured

I have some words written on my bathroom mirror in dry erase crayon. They change when I clean my mirror, but for the most part, they have the same theme: Don’t let anyone steal your magic. Be the (love, good, change, joy, hope, peace, magic) you wish to see in the world You are loved […]

Vanessa (The Magician – Chapter Three)

This is the third chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician. To read the previous chapters, click here Want to listen to this instead of read it? Check out M. Ray Davis’ podcasted version! Vanessa Vanessa Rankin sat at her desktop computer that same evening, listening to music stream through her wireless […]

Weddings and Funerals

I was recently at a wedding for one of the other half’s oldest friends, whom we call his sister even though they are not blood related. It was a wedding to which we traveled almost four hundred miles over the course of a day. Many of the old friends had gathered for this wedding, bringing […]

Reflections and gratitude

Despite starting this blog as an outlet to talk about writing in general, I realized that I haven’t done a blog post in a bit where I just talked about where I am in my writing. So here goes. **Note here – I’ve linked to other blog posts if people are interested in anything I’ve […]

Remittance (The Magician – Chapter Two)

This is the second chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician. To read the first chapter if you missed it, click here – Ignace. Want to listen to this instead of read it? Check out M. Ray Davis’ podcasted version! Trigger warning: This has some violence in it. Remittance “Kneel,” Lorenzo commanded, […]

Journeys

Have you ever set out on a journey without having a destination in mind? I may not have done so on a road trip, but sometimes, especially on walks around my neighborhood or neighborhoods wherever and whenever I am visiting a new place, I often just go wherever my feet take me. Sometimes, we don’t […]

Let the divisions fall

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, once paraphrased a verse that shows up in three different Gospels when he spoke at the Illinois Republican State Convention, in Springfield, Illinois on the 16th of June, 1858: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” It was a quote Jesus gave, according to Matthew […]

Ignace (The Magician – Chapter One)

This is the first chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician. I plan to publish the next chapter on 15 July 2023. Subscribe to my blog to keep tabs on my work! Want to listen to this instead of read it? Check out M. Ray Davis’ podcasted version! Ignace The magician […]