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Friday Morning Ramblings


Recently, I’ve had a lot of new followers to this blog, so I wanted to take a moment while I wait for the stragglers to bring in their final papers to provide a little background for my fantasy series, The Brotherhood of Dwarves.

The central story revolves around a young dwarf, Roskin, who is the heir to a kingdom of dwarves that live underground in an isolated mountain range.  Because of their location, these dwarves have had no enemies for centuries and have been allowed to focus their energies on more than warfare.  As such, they are refined and civilized, renowned for their art, music, and poetry.  In short, they are not your stereotypical dwarves.

But Roskin is young and ambitious, bored with the refinement and yearning for adventure.  By chance, he hears the tale of an artifact stolen from a neighboring kingdom, a statuette that signifies the bond between the races of dwarves.  Seeing an opportunity to make a name for himself, he decides to search for this artifact and return it to its rightful owners.  To do so, he must first find Crushaw, the human who built the fortress where the item is rumored to be held.

Crushaw was once a ruthless, highly skilled general, but was stripped of his rank and exiled to a remote military outpost after refusing to enter a battle.  Having lost his honor, he has descended into alcoholism and lives off the mercy of a dwarven tavern owner, Molgheon.  The adventure follows Roskin and Crushaw as they make their way to the fortress, hunted by both slave traders and soldiers from the army Crushaw once led…

The Brotherhood of Dwarves – Book One

Red Sky at Dawn – Book Two

The Fall of Dorkhun – Book Three

Education Ramblings

The Future of Education!

Warning:  Recently The Ramblings of D. A. Adams engaged in subversive activity with its disparaging mockery of current student engagement and grade enhancement methodologies.  We at the Bureau of Educational Bureaucracy find this kind of insubordination abhorrent and unfounded.  The current policies and guidelines proposed by the BEB and then adopted and mandated by individual states represent thousands of hours of research by administrative professionals, who through rigorous study of theory and abstract concept, understand classroom paradigms more clearly than mere teachers.  In fact, current teacher evaluation procedures were written by an administrator not sullied by the cumbersome and mentally taxing burden of in-class experience.  Therefore, the procedures more clearly define teacher expectations through an unfiltered lens.

As a result of his subversion, D. A. Adams has been taken to an undisclosed location for advanced re-education protocol and, given the re-education is successful, should return to this blog sometime after the next election cycle.  Until then, his replacement, Dr. Bohrdem Tatears, will entertain you with PowerPoint presentations of flow charts for proper use of humor within the social hierarchy of future corporate-modeled educational systems.  Remember, humor is a dangerous tool and, like all tools, should only be wielded by trained professionals.

Editor’s Note: We at The Ramblings of D. A. Adams were unaware that Mr. Adams was involved in such deviant behavior and apologize for his disparaging criticism of BEB policies.  His views are not reflective of the respect and admiration we hold for the All Children Left Behind and Race to a Stop Acts.

Monday Afternoon Ramblings

This is what end of semester Monday has done to me!

I would love to write a full entry today, but the end-of-the-semester-crunch has me worn down.  I hope to get a good night’s sleep tonight and be able to write the humorous follow-up to my recent Education Ramblings tomorrow.  Until then, please come join my new Facebook page, “Fire Tennessee’s Fair-Weathered Fans.”

That’s all for now.