Hello world of blogging. I’m back, I got distracted by Melissa Hart’s wonderful Humors Essay class and canning season. I’ve been canning since I was 9 years old and this is the first season where I was not able to easily get tomatoes from the Willamette Valley. Global warming? Dragons? All I know is I’m glad I know how to can and watch out inflation when you’re at the grocery story this winter.

Wolf Island: How I met Jess' Dragon

I first met Jess' Dragon at the House of Mystery, Oregon Vortex. Jess my hero in my YA Wolf Island (working title) came into my writing life in San Francisco. His dragon, my creation appeared after I visited the Oregon Vortex.

Sighing, Jess leaned back against the wall of the cabin and closed his eyes in relief. Suddenly he saw! Just a flicker but he saw it. A Dragon! A dragon trapped…No… growing out of the Madrone tree chained to the twisted planked shed.

Jess shook his head. No the dragon was the Madrone tree or was the tree the dragon? He opened his eyes, before him was the red hued Madrone tree. He blinked slowly then he saw it again a blue golden, long body Chinese dragon. The heavy thick chain was anchored by a large iron ball dangling in mid air. The dragon seemed to be hibernating, frozen in place and time.