Old Dave: Blog

For new members, or forgetful long term readers, just a short note.

SOL is fantastic. Every day, we are treated to new material, some complete stories and some chapters of longer stories. By all means, enjoy the new postings.

On the days that nothing new appeals to you, dig into the older posted stories. Both the Catagory and Advanced searches are great tools.

For instance, I just reread two stories posted by FantasyLover several years ago. Both Perchance to Dream and Perchance to Visit are fantastic.

Don't cheat your self out of great experiences by not exploring SOL.

Periodically, I find my self drawn back to the stories by Ernest Bywater, who died in July of 22.

Just to say, we miss you, Ernest.

I am a long time reader and occasional writer on SOL. I have enjoyed many of the do over or do after death stories here on SOL.

I recently ran across a book on Amazon (forgiveness please) entitled "Life before Life". It is based on research by a department of the University of Virginia and built on 1100 cases converted to computer. They have over 2500 reported and investigated cases, just not all entered into their data base yet.

So maybe some of the crazy writers here are not crazy after all.

Our excellent writer, Ernest Bywater,died six months ago. His writing remains right up there with the greats. Although I've read his story Mack many times I still get chills as I reread it. His prose in chapter one where he is detailing the murder of Jim Dean and setting up the story is no less than masterful.

If you haven't read it recently, give yourself a treat and check it out.

I just finished reading Living Two Lives - Book 1. In telling the story of a childhood cancer patient it tells of the death by cancer of another child.

If we have a pet going through a painful death we are able to ease their pain and suffering with euthanasia. I could not make my dog suffer a painful death with cancer in his sinuses.

If we can do it for the pets we love why in the name of everything holy can we not do it for the people we love.