Tor's Place (Book) http://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1461602-Tors-Place/printit/1 Today is July 15, 2011 and it marks my last day as a paying member of Writing.com. I doubt if there are many here any more that even remembers me since I have not been active in at least three years but there was a time when I blogged here regularily. In my time here I did two complete blogs and was half way through this one when I left and I had a mod...[Read Full Post] Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:04:16 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/728710 For those of you who have never heard of Tor, I am just a guy who use to blog here a long time ago. I'm nobody special, but I knew some very special people here. It seems like forever since I last visited this place where I once played daily. I remember when we all were trying for "Blue Months" by writing everyday and now I see I have mana...[Read Full Post] Thu, 27 May 2010 10:59:34 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/697466 It occurred to me, as I swapped emails with Partyof5, that even though it has been almost a year since I had blogged on this site, there may be one or two people who still remembered me and might be wondering where I had gotten off to. This past year has been one of upheavel for me climaxed by the loss of our son, Richard who was a pilot in the Ar...[Read Full Post] Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:41:55 EST http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/689114 Yes, its true, some doctors should be deep fried in chicken fat while still breathing....but that's just my opinion you understand. As you can probably deduce by the title and the opening sentence, the dance of the doctors goes on. Indeed, not only does it continue, but it has now gone from a stately waltz, to something akin to a Russian Folk Dan...[Read Full Post] Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:12:24 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/669077 Yesterday afternoon; Sept. 10, 2009, I received a phone call from my best friend, [Link To User ccstring] . I think there may be a few of you left around here who remember CC. He was and is one of the most talented, funny, writers that has ever been on this site. Now getting a phone call from CC is not something that is unusual for me as we normally...[Read Full Post] Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:28:26 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/667334 Hello, my name is Tor and I use to blog in here on a daily basis. There may be one or two of you in here who remember me, after all it has been about two months since I did a blog and we all know that two months can equal "forever" in Cyberland. Anyway, here I am. A very dear friend of mine said that this place was like a touchstone, a place t...[Read Full Post] Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:27:30 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/664849 Alrighty then.....let's have another try at this shall we! I would like to expand a bit on the entry I made yesterday so if you didn't bother to read it yesterday....go on...I'll wait on you.... ARE YOU DONE YET? Geeze. Okay...are you back now? Well as you can see by that last entry, I was having what I have come to refer to since...[Read Full Post] Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:05:37 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/657459 Ever since my stroke, and the time I was forced to miss from work, we have been behind on all our bills. Oh not a lot at first, but it continues to get worse each month. I make enough money to live and pay the bills under normal circumstances, but not enough to catch up after an illness. So as I said, each month we find ourselves falling a little fur...[Read Full Post] Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:48:26 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/657349 The month is almost over and my goals are almost met so I figured I could spare the time to put an entry in here. So, for the three or four people who may or may not stumble in here, this is what is going on in my world. My book is almost ready for the publisher. I have maybe four more chapters to work over and two more that I want to add to the endin...[Read Full Post] Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:07:49 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/656358 June has arrived and summer is upon us. This is a time of renewal, when the Earth grows green and comes alive after a long winter season. Thus it is with people sometimes, that we go through periods of winter in which we accomplish little, then we have a "Summer" season marked by bursts of activity and we accomplish our goals. So it is with me...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:50:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/653186 When I first considered writing this entry, I played about with different titles, all of which were a take off on some of my favorite War movies. Some of my choices were: 1. A Goat Too Far 2.Goat Burger Hill 3.The Longest Goat 4.Saving Pvt. Goat 5. The Great Goat Escape. thought about doing the entire entry in screenplay format...kinda ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:42:42 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/652588 More and more this bible verse comes to me. I think that it is telling me something I had somehow forgotten along the way. Whether you believe in God or believe in the Bible, these words hold meaning for all of us, I believe. The trick is knowing WHEN that time has come. There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 31 May 2009 12:12:22 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/652450 I just got off the phone with [Link To User debiwharton] . She was calling to let me know that her beloved mother in law and her best friend, had passed away early this morning. Debi asked me to give you all the news. Please keep Debi and Eric in your thoughts and prayers as they go about making the funeral arrangements. The dear lady was eighty-fiv...[Read Full Post] Sat, 30 May 2009 09:38:13 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/652312 One morning 3 Southern good old boys and 3 new yorkers were in a ticket line at the birmingham train station heading to atlanta for a big football game. The 3 northerners each bought a ticket and watched as the 3 good ole boys from the South bought just one ticket among them. "how are the 3 of you going to travel on one 1 ticket?" asked on...[Read Full Post] Fri, 29 May 2009 16:33:41 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/652218 Some men would absolutely love the idea of their wives taking off for a few weeks and traveling across the country without them. They would throw a party, have a blast, live it up....me, not so much. I am not ashamed to admit that my wife is my life and without her here this house, this planet, just isn't the same. I do not hesitate to admit that, without this ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 28 May 2009 09:53:20 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/652009 There are phrases, sentences, snippet's of conversation, that define our lives, that serve as watersheds of each age in which we pass through, from birth to death. These are a few that tell a story of a life. "Ready or not, here I come!" "Red rover, red rover, let Mikey come over." "You're too young, you...[Read Full Post] Wed, 27 May 2009 08:17:00 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/651827 "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out." Anton Chekhov "But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. " Umberto Eco "Every man dies. Not every ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 26 May 2009 19:42:09 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/651750 Nov. 23, 1783...The Treaty of Paris. Dec. 24, 1814....Treaty of Ghent. Feb. 2, 1848,,,,Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo April 9, 1865,,,Lee surrenders to Grant April 11, 1899..Protocol of Peace between Spain and America June 28,1919...Treaty of Versailles Aug. 15, 1945....Japan surrenders ending WW2 July 27,...[Read Full Post] Mon, 25 May 2009 15:26:32 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/651568 I thought today I would tell you a story about one of the people I grew up with back in Buzzard Neck, Texas. Kenny Frank Childress. Now ole Kenny Frank, or "Chicken" as some of us called him on account of his initials, was a rare sort in the town of Buzzard Neck; he was an intellectual, owning to the fact that his momma and daddy had insisted ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 24 May 2009 14:37:06 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/651427 Have you ever wondered why we do what we do? No, I don't mean what we do in the real world, but rather what we do with the computer. Think about it a minute if you will. Here we are, all members of a "Writing Site" and doing a blog....why do we put so much of our time and effort into writing a blog? What about all the other "stuff&...[Read Full Post] Sat, 23 May 2009 14:11:20 EDT http://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/651269