To say that it has been to long since I posted a new blog here is a major understatement... I have no excuses. I became caught up in the day-to-day grind that has been my life. Revenant had to take a backseat to good old Dave Minor when it came to getting my life together. Since May of 2009 when I last posted, I have moved to Colorado then back to TX then back to CO. Long story. Let's just say that the life I led there is mostly past and I had to learn the hard way to let go and accept change as I have often claimed is the key to living with my own self, fears, hopes and accomplishments as well. I made the move to just outside of Colorado Springs to be nearer a very special person, my writing partner. Not a lovelife or a possible relationship but an actual working and living arrangement that allows me to focus full-time on writing and to live life as fully and happy as I can. A major step for a person who has had issues of social anxiety and a mostly solitary existence for years. I spent many months in a round table of email writing with new people who helped me find that I was not happy and I could do more for my life. There was just as much support from these near strangers as the wonderful friends I met here. Between these friends and the support network I built here and other places I learned to trust and to reach out. I am still, as always, a work in progress, and I will always be. The catalyst that began the change was finding a friend that I knew as a child and then again as a teenager in high school. I found that we both shared a love for writing and a dream of making a serious career of it. She also was instrumental in giving me something I never knew I was missing... a partner to work with that I would not want to let down. Letting myself down is par for course but I seem to be able to pull just a bit more strength when I have someone else counting on me: friends, family, even strangers. I work harder to make the partnership work and she makes sure I do not put myself past my own limits and burn myself out like I have done so often before. Together we are stronger than we are apart and yet, we are still solo writers as well. It is a great thing and I am proud to have this friend once more in my life and it has made all the difference in the world. This is short, compared to most of my ravings but I think it is one of the truly greatest blogs regarding my thoughts and doings. I will try to be more "regular" about my posts here as well.

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.. Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead. Life is sexually transmitted. Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to? Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?” Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there? I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt.” Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him? If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup? Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window? Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle? :D:D ~~ Revenant ~~ :D:D

Hi All. Long time, no blog. Over a year I think. Have not really checked. So why now? Well, I have lost contact with a few of you and I would love tht contact to be returned. I miss SC more than even sometimes I admit. My first Love was here, my first opening up my soul, as glorious or dark as it has been happened on these pages... Here is the skinny on the latest: 1) Finished Book 2 of The Revenant Cycle and has Revenant in a few chapters but mostly deals with the Fair Folk and their place in the world I have built. I am currently working on the third book and watch for my announcement soon about it. It ties some loose ends together and yet, opens up more mysteries as well. 2) The hunt for a publisher goes on. Every time I think I have one interested they slip off the hook (metaphorically speaking, but don't give me ideas! Editors are NOT easy to deal with...) I hope my chances will improve as i move this coming summer... 3) My family life is strained to say the least. I want out and I want out asap. I just think i am making progress when the carpet is yanked from under my feet. It is time, past time, I did something for myself. 4) My physical health has waxed and waned over the past year... My pain has tripled in some cases and I have a myriad of other issues that I fight with all my heart but my Heart itself was damaged last year and I am not always at my peak. I hav for the last three weeks - a month been in such bad pain at times i am not sure if a baby Alien is trying to burst out! My legs feel as if they have run multiple marathons and my upper body aches even from typing. My legs hurt more when I lay, my arms and neck when I sit, Standing is completely impossible for any length of time... Why? I don't know. I have no Dr here and the cold hard facts are I am not likely to as to as long as I live under the same roof with my mother. My problems you see are because I have "no pain tolerance." as she puts it. Well, when I am crying myself to sleep in bed because the pain is do incredibly bad and I have no way to stop it, I strt getting more and more depressed. I am up now so I can hopefully find the "zone" in my writing and ignore the body issues but it has yet to be easy. If you wish to do me a good turn any of the following will be appreciated: light a candle for me, say a prayer, perform some religious ceremony you practice, it matters not to me as I am open to all but it is the well-meant thought that counts.. Believe me, with some of the problems I face, I will not complain one bit.. Finally, I do not want anyone to think I am only here to vent and dump. I write here because I never have been judged here. I write because so many of you mean so much to me and in the long run, not a single one of you has ever turned me out... Thank You, From the Bottom of my Heart and all My Spirit and Soul, Dave

HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR: 2029 Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language. Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock. Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped. Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage. Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels. France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica . No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation! Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking. George Z.H.W. Bush says he will run for President in 2036. Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Tue. Wed. Thurs. only. 85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss. Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs. Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba. Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they now can photograph a woman with her mouth shut. Abortion clinics now available in every High School in United States Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays. Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative. Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights. Average height of NBA players is now nine feet, seven inches. New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030 IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent. Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines. --- Revenant

Thought that might get some attention... Have to tell you Fiends and Neighbors that it is an oven down here in W. Hell, TX. 91° and expected to be 97 by 3pm... Not a breeze or rain drop in sight (Good news with the Rain as it never lasts long enough and then the humidity makes it horribly oppressive for the rest of the day..) So, many have asked me what have I been doing... I could give you a veritable laundry list of the whys and wherefores of it all but suffice it to say I have been looking for a way out of this Hell-Hole. I guess that probably sounds rude to anyone down here but I am not usually a person who likes my feet growing roots and in the hot, rock and clay based ground of W. Texas is the LAST place I want to. I have had some good times here and some wonderful friends that have helped me through some of the roughest patches of road I have had to travel down here but I do not believe I have made it a secret that I WANT OUT! Hell, Canada hears me screaming it! (Note: Check with Brett to make sure) I took a trip to Missouri that ended with me in Misery and a Rheumatic Heart Condition I did not have before... Not a good as time as I hoped and I learned that going ANYWHERE was not the same as going some place where I would be appreciated and loved. Seattle looked good for a while, but the first Queen of My Heart dropped a bombshell on that plan as I did not have the funds to make it on my own. Then there was Houston... So now I am looking at North Carolina at the foothills of the Smokies and I am fairly sure that that is where I would be happiest. I am committed here in TX until my Mother is safely on her way to Las Vegas to live by my sister as she is not doing well at all and early senility or Alzheimer's is the most likely source. I have had my life veritably turned upside-down since this became apparent and to be honest, I know I have done everything I could within my meager means but I can not drive her around or keep paying for the excesses she entails. I have a wonderful and realistic offer of a home and place where I will be appreciated in NC which is to say, much better than continuous living in the family compound until I become rabid and require a Cujo-like ending. I love my Family but let's face it, if you read my blogs before you know that dysfunctional is a relative term! When am I moving? Well, that depends on when my Mother is. I owe her that much for her allowing me to come home in 96 when I had nowhere else to go but a State-funded rubber room. Suffice it to say, it could be as early as August or as late as January. No matter the time or season, I know I will be welcome with opened arms and there will be acceptance... and in the final analysis, that was all I ever wanted in the first place...