by Candy Crum
Because of that, I now understand how parents might accidentally push their children down a path they don’t want to go.
When a parent is pushy, doesn’t mean their parenting is horrible. It can mean we don’t understand how our children can’t possibly love what we enjoy when we see they have the talent to be awesome at whatever it is.
In Candy’s author notes, it is apparent she doesn’t have that challenge in her life, and that is fantastic. Both her boys are showing engagement and interest. I completely understand her oldest wanting to go into video games and desire their advocation to become their vocation.
(I’m secretly hoping my guys all become world-wide best-selling authors and we create an author-family synonymous with writing like the Kennedys or the Bushes in politics, but I keep that to myself.
And apparently now with all of you, too.)
That hyperbolic fantasy aside, it brings a smile to my face when others get a chance to share their passion with family members.
I have a niece who might want to ask Uncle Mike about what he does for a living, and I’m looking forward to that discussion, too.
Who knows, maybe “Anderle” will become a surname well-known to readers over the next decade or two?
I would smile if maybe in the future, there is another collaboration, but this time it isn’t Candy Crum and Michael Anderle. Nope, the collaborators are between our children, or our nieces / nephews etc.
I think I’ll go find a Coke and drink to that!
Diary Entry Saturday, June 6, 2020 to Friday, June 12, 2020
Las Vegas is slowly opening from the Covid shutdown.
It is interesting what is going on here in Las Vegas as the city slowly opens back up (I live on the Strip, so I don’t know what is going on downtown.) I have been to the Venetian / Palazzo Hotels/Casinos on Thursday night and to Gold Coast on Friday night.
Specifically, I wanted the chicken wrap with spicy sauce in the Grand Lux and Chinese food at Ping Pang Pong in Gold Coast.
It was delicious.
While I did gamble on Thursday night, it just wasn’t the same as I remember back before the Pandemic shut all doors. Back then, everything was either a party, the late-night party, or the people leaving the party and more flying in to start that next night’s party.
Now, I’m waiting to see if the folks from California drive here or what happens if they don’t. Only a few hotels are open at the moment, and even the restaurants inside the open hotels are occasionally not open for business (or if open, they don’t have the same operating hours as before.)
It’s really weird.
But I’m thankful it IS happening.
I was talking w/ fellow author Craig Martelle driving to breakfast Wednesday, and I happened to be driving next to the airport and saw one jet land while another was taking off. I then looked around the runways and noticed about five jets lining up, waiting to take off.
My jaw almost dropped.
I hadn’t seen jets (more than one) on the tarmac in over two months. The airport had become almost like a ghost town. I remember one night last year counting seven jets lining up, their landing lights trailing off into the sky to land, and recently I couldn’t see seven jets at all unless you count a few parked somewhere.
Covid-19 has hurt the planet in so many ways. From the obvious of lives taken early to families’ savings wiped out, to pesticides and machinery not able to get to locations for the swarm of billions of locusts rampaging across east Africa and India.
If I had put all of this into a story, I think more than one reader might have told me I had placed too many challenges in the mix, and they thought ‘C’mon! Epidemics, swarms, floods, and famine? Get real, Michael!’
Real life has hit us all.
And yet, humans fight back. We fight back for all of the right reasons. Sometimes it’s amongst ourselves, sometimes against the insect population and sometimes against contagions.
I know that a couple of planes crossing a lonely tarmac in Las Vegas isn’t the same kind of sign as a beautiful flower amongst a destroyed landscape, but for me personally, it was a small sign that we as a world are getting back on our feet.
May you find your own flower as we rise up out of a completely horrible first half of 2020.
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
Books by Candy Crum
TALES OF THE FEISTY DRUID
*with Michael Anderle*
The Arcadian Druid (01) - The Undying Illusionist (02) - The Frozen Wasteland (03) - The Deceiver (04) - The Lost (05) - The Damned (06) Into The Maelstrom (07) Legends Of The Ancients (08)
THE THERIAN CHRONICLES
*with Amanda Browning*
The Dark Professor (1) The Therian Prince (2)
Reclaiming The Shadow Realm
The Usurper (1) Darkness Rising (2) Shadow Born (3)
Stand-Alone Novels
Stranger Than Fiction
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