The first civilization to cultivate the cacao tree was the Olmecs, three thousand years ago. The Mayans, who came along centuries later, called the cacao tree simply “tree”, just as “cake” means “chocolate cake” to me. Next, the Toltecs believed their king to be the…
I’m writing a story for an anthology. For some reason, I was assigned a humorous dragon story, so that’s what I’m writing. I thought it would be fun to do a companion piece to “The Dragon of North 24th Street”, which I wrote for the…
Since I posted my Caturday post yesterday, like a dummy, I had to do something else for Caturday. But, being basically lazy, I just made a wanted poster. Here it is. Sometimes we must be cruel to be kind. Cats are very sensitive to shaming,…
