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A tale well calculated to keep you in... this cardboard box...
Living alone gave me the freedom to stow away boxes just about anywhere my mind could find space. Now I admit that's not a great asset to...

Kirby Lee Davis
Mar 252 min read
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Of my pet gator and toilet paper...
When I was a kid, I often dreamt it would be just so divinely cool to have a pet alligator. Like many deep thinkers, I knew for a...

Kirby Lee Davis
Mar 192 min read
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Quote/Unquote
Once, many years ago, a dear friend asked for my favorite quote. Of course, me being me, that spurred me to jot all my favorites down...

Kirby Lee Davis
Feb 147 min read
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Sharing some high school exploits… and a Facebook conversation
It’s time to restart my blog. Let’s pick up where we left off, preserving amazing, often hysterical (or humbling) tales of my past. This...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jan 74 min read
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Our next big step...
Here’s a head’s up for my followers! With this blog, we enter a new stage in my novel-publishing adventure. While I have more books to...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jul 29, 20222 min read
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Going horizontal
God's Furry Angels' new editions achieve what once seemed a dream: a beautiful hardcover worthy of the family coffee table, with one or...

Kirby Lee Davis
May 13, 20222 min read
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Decisions and their consequences, part 2 -- a tale of two insurers
Why is a $14,000 emergency auto insurance claim easier to resolve than a routine $40 doctor’s office copayment? In truth, I never figured...

Kirby Lee Davis
Dec 3, 20217 min read
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Decisions and their consequences, part 1 -- a nightmare on black ice
I first spied the brooding specter within a dark fog shrouding the bridge's crest. As my headlights pierced that reflective mist, I...

Kirby Lee Davis
Oct 13, 20218 min read
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Reflecting on a lifetime of blindness and inspiration
This is something I wrote Oct. 7, 2016. The text explains itself. I enter it among my blogs in part because I've devoted many entries...

Kirby Lee Davis
Oct 8, 20213 min read
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Laundry lessons
Let me share a simple tale of God working in my life. First, the short and sweet version, for those who really don’t like to read: ● I...

Kirby Lee Davis
Sep 18, 20218 min read
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A lesson learned: “This is perfect Spanish, but it’s not Latin”
Writing my The Spawn of Fashan blogs reminded me of another humorous academic anniversary. This one, from 43 years ago, tells how I met...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jul 24, 20214 min read
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The Spawn of Fashan, part 2
Hello! Welcome back to the story behind The Spawn of Fashan roleplaying game, my cultish phenomenon published 40 years ago this...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jun 15, 20218 min read
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The Spawn of Fashan
Here’s a special treat for my blog audience: a sneak peek at my next book! But it’s not what you expect. Two score and a year or so ago,...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jun 15, 20215 min read
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Questions and answers
Do you ever question your effectiveness? While such concerns have shadowed most of my efforts since I started down this book-publishing...

Kirby Lee Davis
Apr 18, 20216 min read
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Parables of circular logic, or a walk inside my mind
This marks both my 50th blog and my 3,000th Instagram post. A double milestone! With this in mind, I prayed to find something truly...

Kirby Lee Davis
Mar 26, 20214 min read
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Tales from the shelves: Looks at my books!
And now for something completely different: a study of my reading habits! Back in blog 13, I walked you through a list of my favorite...

Kirby Lee Davis
Feb 26, 20215 min read
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How I learned to play the guitar
And now for something completely different – a reader’s request! An overseas friend asked if I might teach him how to strum the guitar. I...

Kirby Lee Davis
Feb 9, 20217 min read
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Reverence and awe
And now for something completely different: my first true photo blog! I know what you’re saying – “Hey, all your blogs feature photos!”...

Kirby Lee Davis
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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Tales from the shelves: Of tapes, toys, a tray, and a Thermos
My bookshelves probably contain as many mementos as bound texts. Usually I group these keepsakes by some theme, like a genre or product...

Kirby Lee Davis
Jan 26, 20216 min read
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The Birthday Song Scam
And now for something completely similar: another brush with crime! Last week’s blog told of a bloody incident suffered one year ago....

Kirby Lee Davis
Jan 10, 20213 min read
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Very hard lessons
With the new year, I decided to use my blog not just for gentle biblical devotions, but to examine lessons from my life’s hard cases....

Kirby Lee Davis
Jan 5, 202110 min read
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Flipping that coin, through faith
Let’s dive into another devotional drawn from nature! Our topic: life and death. Some may question whether that’s two topics, and perhaps...

Kirby Lee Davis
Dec 28, 20207 min read
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The paths of righteousness
Let’s dive into another Christian devotional based on nature! Our topic: the long and winding road. Holidays often bring forth travel...

Kirby Lee Davis
Dec 20, 20206 min read
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Of fear, guilt, and incrimination...
This is a blog I’ve struggled to write for a while, in part because I knew not where to take it, in part because I’ve written on this...

Kirby Lee Davis
Dec 9, 20208 min read
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