I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death