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Saturday, February 4, 2012

D.W. Hawkins and The Sentient Fire

The Sentient Fire is a book written by D.W. Hawkins. It's a fantasy about two wizards, Dormael and his cousin D'Jenn. They rescue a child named Bethany and a warrior woman, Shawna, and take them along as companions for further adventure. Dormael's and D'Jenn's magic protect them from their enemies who are after Shawna's sacred armlet. Here is excerpt from the story.

Bring him forth," Roburn spat at Dormael's captor, and Dormael received a nudge with the tip of the blade to urge him forward. Dormael stared Roburn in the eye and stepped into the space the guards had cleared in front of their leader. When he was within eight hands of Roburn, Dormael's captor kicked him in the back of the legs, sending him painfully to his knees. Dormael swallowed his white hot rage as the guards closed around him. With a surge of power, he filled himself with magic. The hair on his arms rose as the power of magic filled his body, his senses and his mind. He could feel the thumbing of his heart as he gathered power and energy for one deadly attack.

Roburn's face was filled with anger as he took a step forward as if to kick Dormael. Dormael's magic was so charged he felt himself crackling with energy and screaming with pure elation. Somewhere above he felt another song in the void, another gathering of power, D'Jenn was ready.
It came as a tiny light and reflected off Roburn's boot which was rushing to meet Dormael's face. Within the light Dormael could see the roiling waves of power pressed so tightly it fit into the mote shining between the wizard and the aggressor.

Something that appeared to be a strange mating of lighting and liquid fire slammed with a crackling noise into Roburn's chest. Dormael watched with grim satisfaction. Two more arcs of power and the other syndicate leaders were down with Roburn, dead the instant they touched the power. Suddenly the air seemed to thicken around Dormael, and he could feel the weaving of magic overhead. It was a sheild and he could feel D'Jenn's song and the melding of D'Jenn's mind in the magic. Dormael smiled and felt relief wash over him.

You can look D.W. Hawkins up on his blog or say hello to him on twitter.

The Sentient of Fire can be purchases at: www.amazon.com/Sentient-Fire-Seven-Signs-ebook

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D.W. Hawkins twitter: @authorDWhawkins

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Saving and Investing | Gomestic

Saving and investing is an important issue with every family. It’s the best idea to start saving with your first pay check. If you didn’t do that, you can’t begin any earlier than your next pay check. You might think you don’t have any money left over to save. The remedy to that is to write a check for savings first, and budget the remainder of your money to pay bills. You might have to skip movies, or dinner out but savings is more important.

Dressing Kids on a Budget | Quazen

Dressing kids on a budget can be done. Before you go to the store, make a deal with your child that you wont buy anything that you both don’t agree on. That takes care of a lot of whining. Know what your child needs and stick to it. Take out all of your child’s clothes and see exactly what he or she needs. If any repairs need to be done, take care of it. Your daughter or son might have a good shirt or blouse that is still in good shape but they are tired of wearing it. See if you can dye it a different color to make it look new. You might find several you can redo.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Recipe for The Perfect Doughnuts | Gomestic

These doughnuts will turn out perfectly. They are delicious. If you are making doughnuts to take to a block party or a large get together you might want to go ahead and fry in oil. For my family I roll out the doughnuts and put them on a cookie sheet, spray with butter and bake. It usually takes about 15 minutes in a 400 degree oven. They are done when lightly brown. Baking saves oodles of calories.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What is a Healthy Weight? | Healthmad

Most of us do not know what a healthy weight is anymore. We have steadily grown more obese during the last twenty years. Look at a class of school children in the seventy’s and look at a class of today. It can be shocking. And it isn’t only children. The adults are even more obese. I believe it’s all the junk food on grocery shelves and fast food restaurants. Whatever the reason it’s time for parents to choose healthy food over junk.

http://notecook.com/main-course/easy-low-calorie-vegetable-dishes/

http://healthmad.com/nutrition/citrus-fruit-and-what-it-does-for-you/

http://gomestic.com/gardening/growing-your-own-herbs/

Spielberg’s War Horse Receives Two Thumbs Up | Socyberty

Should animals work in movie making? With computer animation and all the technology, is it even necessary? Not every producer is as careful of animals as Steven Spielberg. In his movie "War Horse" fourteen horses were employed to play "Joey" from the time he was a colt on an English farm till he was on the battlefields of World Wat 1. Computer graphics were used in the scenes that were dangerous for the horse, and it’s impossible to tell any difference from the real thing.

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http://authspot.com/thoughts/me-and-sister-go-to-town/

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Does The Nicotine Patch Work? | Healthmad

Smokers who are concerned about their health and want to end their addiction to cigarettes have spent hundreds of dollars on nicotine patches and gum to make it easier to put cigarettes aside. Now a new study comes along that tells us, it doesn’t work. Those who use these products are no better off than those who quite cold turkey. And worse yet the appointed panel who approved the nicotine patches were paid by the product manufacture.

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http://socyberty.com/issues/internet-rape-and-craigslist/

http://writinghood.com/on-line-writing/d-w-hawkins-and-the-sentient-fire/