“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
~~ Charles Dickens
The annual rite of Taxes is complete as spring seems to be finally settling in and ramping itself up. The canopy of trees that surround our new home have begun to green out and Kit is working on planting the new garden (complete with deer fencing). It has truly been one of those March’s Dickens lamented about as temperatures have been flipping from 32° mornings on one day to 80° plus afternoons with plenty of sunshine and Carolina Blue skies on the next.
It has been a crazy six months for us as we moved from Denver back east to settle in North Carolina. We made a decision last summer to relocate to be closer to family and had assumed we wouldn’t be moving until spring of this year, so we were surprised and excited in November to find a new home. In mid-January we raced across country ahead of an ice storm that wreaked all kinds of havoc wherever it hit and two weeks later, after a rare snowstorm, we were moving in.
Through the past few months of unpacking and moving in I have been able to get to my writing desk on a somewhat regular schedule. Well, sort of. I have been working on several short stories to rebuild my Catalog and hope to have those available for submission in the next couple of weeks..
Waiting for publication confirmation of my short story SHANG REE LAH in the online journal El Portal Literary Journal. On his first hunting trip, a young man learns about the mountain in Pennsylvania where his father grew up and encounters the fabled king of the mountain, SHANG REE LAH.
You can read my most recently published story, No One, as well as others here: Short Stories.
Until next time. Peace
Note on the cover photo: On the California Zephyr headed to Chicago from Denver (December 2022)
Duane M. Engelhardt 