It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.