Old Dave: Blog

Here's to the end of 2025. I just hope 2026 is a kinder year!
Just putting my wife's Christmas boxes in the storage pit thats supposed to be for the cars. You know, we Americans park cars worth thousands in the weather and sun out on the driveway while our stuff is safely stored in side.
As I looked at the boxes of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter decorations, I ll
remembered her craft room. If she dies before me, there's gonna be one hell od a bonfire!

In an earlier posting I stated A.A.NEMO had left us. I recieved an email from s_mintz, his long time editor, correcting me on A.A. NEMO's status. He is alive and well, just as many of us, has lost his focus which has limited his ability to write.

Let me clarify something. Earlier (below) I posted that we lost A.A. in early 2023. This is my assumption based on a posted story last updated January 2023. If I'm wrong, let me know.

As I get older, my taste change. I find I don't need the cutting edge stories, so I search the archives. I recently ran across an old favorite, A.A. NEMO. He left us a bunch of written gold, like the Jacob's Granddaughter and Lodi series. He also wrote stories building a future after a loss of love or a lover. He left us in early 2023. If you're not familiar, check out his stories.

The stories posted here on SOL run the full spectrum from 'why did he post it' to gifts from the gods. Among the God's gifts are books written by Writer 406. They tell the stories of society's abandoned or rejected people. Both Jacob's Story and Nicholas's Story, the two I've been privileged to read so far, are definitely in the God's gifts class.
I did not review them as the books have been reviewed by others. Instead, I posted this short blog to say check out WRITER 406's gifts, they are mighty.

I am often amazed when I log on SOL. Considering our authors are all volunteers posting original content for free, we have some top notch material available. For instance Ernest Bywater and Lazlo Zaleac as I've recenty reread some of their stories.

In Ernest's case I've recently read A Farmers Life and Zombie. The opening scene of Farmers Life where Tom is rescuing a bus load of children and son James' reaction as he realizes his father is about to die really gets to me every time I read it. Likewise, the descriptive action in Zombie is fantastic, whether he is fighting Talaban or interacting with his children.

Lazlo has many simply fantastic stories. Thunder and Lightening and Ememded by Eclipse are just a couple of his very interesting reads. But, have important messages in them. Some of his other stories have meanings that tend to go over my head!

Unfortunately, both Ernest and Lazlo have left this life but thankfully left us good reads.

We have many other great authors on SOL, these are just ones I've recently been reading. So, good reading to all.