Month: September 2012

A Word From the I.A.B.

Indies Unlimited is brought to you in part by the International Association of Bureaucrats. Remember, if the paperwork wasn’t properly filed, it never happened.

In the founding of every nation there are those who take up arms and fight for the cause and those who supervise the people who oversee the organizational units containing the clerical staff who type up and file the requisitions that make it possible to achieve victory within or slightly exceeding categorical budgetary constraints. Continue reading “A Word From the I.A.B.”

Video Trailer: A Year with Mr. Pish

A Year with Mr. Pish 2013Mr. Pish the traveling terrier will help you stay organized in his own cute way with this 13-month personal planner/calendar loaded with photos of the precious and adventurous pup!

As with all Mr. Pish products, A Year with Mr. Pish – 2013 Personal Planner contains full color photographs and engaging commentary geared to promote outdoor learning and literacy and is fun for all ages.

 

A Year with Mr. Pish, the entertaining personal planner by K. S. Brooks, is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and all Amazon.com stores.

 

Perspective Changes Everything

We are all individuals in this world with different ways of looking at the same events. No better period demonstrates this principle than our current events. Here in the United States, we have two political parties that are talking about the same issues in entirely different ways. Depending on how you look at things, you are either dissing half the country or telling it like it is.

Have you seen the recent NFL referee debacle? If you caught the end of the Seattle Seahawks vs. Green Bay Packers game last Monday night, you saw one of the most publicized displays of perspective in the history of sports. Changing perspective changes everything. In fact, you had two officials standing over the play signaling two different outcomes. Continue reading “Perspective Changes Everything”

Flash Fiction Challenge: Bench-warmer

Doug looked up at the now extinguished Olympic torch. After three tries, he had finally made it to the big show as an alternate. He never even got to compete.

Mostly, it was the same story his whole life. He was the second string quarterback in High School. Never got to play a game.

He was a bench-warmer on his championship college basketball team. Doug never seemed to quite make it to the top. First place was always just out of his reach. He was good at everything he did. He just wasn’t quite good enough.

This was it though. He was too old now. Whatever glory might have been his was behind him. That extinguished torch was him—over. Or maybe it was a turning point. Continue reading “Flash Fiction Challenge: Bench-warmer”