Echoes From the Campfire

Hard and perilous life in a barren and wild country developed great principles in men. Living close to earth, under the cold, bleak peaks, on the dust-veiled desert, men grew like the nature that developed them—hard, fierce, terrible, perhaps, but big—big with elemental force.”                     –Zane…

Coffee Percs

He was a pragmatic man. He reached for the coffee.”                           –Elmer Kelton   Pard, come on in an’ help me out.  No, it’s not the coffee; it’s ready to drink.  But sometimes this new lingo gets me right confused and discombobulated.  I…

Echoes From the Campfire

I had to fight my first battle to conquer my own stubborn soul.”                    –Max Brand  (Riders of the Silences)        “But I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be…

Echoes From the Campfire

It does not matter how cold, bitter or long winter may last; spring, eventually, comes.”                         –Kenneth Pratt  (Dragon’s Fire)         “As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.”…