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Story Elements Random Animal: Vanessa -- Perry the Platypus  Conflict: Aaron -- Your partner of 30 years Has seceterly been working against you the entire time Setting Time: Cary --the year 1846 Random Object: Carrie -- Rooftop tent Setting Place: Colleen -- Bermuda Triangle Random Character: Mom -- Deep Sea Diver Antagonist: Dad -- He is a large, hairy, loud mouth bully whose life code is "My way or no way" Protagonist: Ryanne -- Marcel Thirty something tall slightly awkward guy. Blonde shoulder length curly hair with shockingly green eyes. Random Weather Event: Hosanna -- Sun dog Colleen Holmquist   According to Bernard DeVoto,1846 was “the year of decision”. ‘Course, he hadn’t written his book when Marcel set out on his adventure in 1846. But it was surely a decisive year in Marcel’s life. For the previous thirty years, Marcel and his partner, Bruno, had been digging a hole to China, figuring it was the most direct route from their hometown of Tampa, Florida—whi...

 The Most Important Thing I Learned from My Mom Flynn Family Story Slingers 24 February 2024 by Cary Holmquist The list that I could assemble for “the most important things I learned from my Mom” could likely take up a ream of paper or megabytes of memory—approaching nearly endless.  Just when I come up with one zinger of an item, then a dozen others upon which that one depend comes zooming in.  Almost universally, mothers are the first teachers we have—infants learn almost everything about the first basic actions for living from their mothers.  I have never heard that any person alive who knew more than their mother when they were born or even years beyond that.  Certainly I am no exception to that observation.  Even mothers themselves are under that mortal development. So contemplating this list gets me going about what could be the most important thing that my mother taught me. What would be at the top—or more significantly, at the bottom of th...