It was late afternoon yesterday when I was watching the fine old movie "A Man for All Seasons", which is one of my personal favorites and I proclaimed many years ago as appropriate Sunday viewing.
One of the twins (I don't remember which) came to me and asked if I had really written a book called "Rachel and Her Knight in Shining Armor". I was a little perturbed at being interrupted during the latest showing of my favorite movie, so I recall blurting out "YES!" Happily, I was being honest!
I wrote this novella in 1998, during the Great Writing Year while I was working off-shore. I was putting together a collection of short stories at the request of Barbour Publishing and this was the "anchor" story of the collection. It is actually several stories wrapped inside a narrative of the life of a dancer. It was also the last story from my "sappy tear-jerker" phase. It is acclaimed, even by my wife that wrinkles her nose at my more current work, as my best so far, even eclipsing the far more popular "The Miracle of the Quilt" which is included in my "The Joys of Autism and Christian Ethos" short story collection.
If you are up for my traditional unlikely heroes and a story where all the girls' dreams come true, you would do no better than to spend a bit of your evening with my hidden treasure "Rachel and Her Knight in Shining Armor"!
As a bit of an aside, my plans for a graduate degree fell apart, as well as a plan to do a book on family power! This always happens to me whenever I put off work on Navigiary. I am not moving ahead stunningly, but more progress is being made and I am "a-ways" into it. Surely I will find things to say in this blog as the work progresses...
