Friday March 20th
4:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Kriegshauser West Mortuary
9450 Olive Blvd
Olivette MO 63132
314-994-3322

The memorial service will begin at 7:30. It is going to be an informal memorial. If you have something you want to share feel free to. But It is not anything set. This is a time for family and friends to say goodbye to Jim and to be there for each other.

After the services Jim will be cremated. Next week I will be taking him to Mississippi to the Ancestral home of the Choctaw to disperse his ashes and lay him to rest with his ancestors, as he wished it.

Anyone who wants to go with us to Mississippi is welcome to accompany us. All I ask is that you be respectful while we are on tribal grounds.

THank you all for your concern and condolances. I am doing alright. Right now I am more numb than anything else but I am working through everything and will be alright.

Thank you
Cassie WhisperingCrow Hickinbotham

March 16th 2009 at 3:15 pm.

My life turned upside down at that moment. My husband Jimmy Kent Rabidwolf Hickinbotham passed on from this life and moved west to the Happy Lands.

For those of you that did not know him, he was a wonderful man who made my life brighter from the moment I met him. For those of you who did know him, you know he was a cranky a**hole at times but that never diminished the joy he brought to my life.

A Memorial Service will be on Friday March 20th. I will post the time tomorrow after I get everything set up. The services will be in Missouri (email me if you want specifics to attend).

After the memorial his body will be cremated and I along with members of his family of choice will be taking his ashes to Mississippi to spread over the Mother Hill at Nanaha Wyah.

At the time of the cremation traditional song and prayer will be sent up from Oklahoma, from a traditional friend who has agreed to tend tho the ceremony for me.

At this time I can honestly say I am completely numb. I am sure things will sink in over time but for now I am just planning to get things set up then I will be able to mourn him from there.

The Last First Book We Ever Wrote

Hello there! My name is Bree, and I’m one half of the romance-writing, virtual-crime-fighting duo known as Moira Rogers. I’m here today because Bitten by Books was kind enough to agree to help us celebrate something really exciting that only comes once in an author’s lifetime: the release of the first book we ever wrote.

Awesome, right? We sure think so! Of course, the part that takes a little bit of explaining is the part where Crux is, in fact, our sixteenth ebook to be released. A lot has happened to us since fall of 2007, when we first sat down to try and tell the story of Mackenzie and Jackson, the heroine and hero who have to fight an evil supernatural conspiracy spanning generations to win their chance at a happy ending. We scampered off to hone our craft on short stories and novellas and learned from our experience. But we always came back to this story, because in the end we loved our tough determined heroine and her smooth talkin’ detective hero too much to leave alone.

Today, in honor of Crux’s release, we’ve teamed up with Bitten by Books for a chance to make someone else just as excited as we are. We have in our possession a NEW Apple iPod touch 8 GB (1st Generation) (Retail Value $229.00), perfect for listening to music AND reading books through the awesome application Stanza. The Apple iPod touch 8 GB also holds 1,750 songs or 10 hours of video. Go here to read all about it. We’re also going to give $50.00 and $25.00 Visa Gift Cards to two lucky runners up! All you need to do is read the rules below and enter this awesome contest. And if you happen to pick up a copy of Crux, we hope you’ll love Jackson and Mackenzie as much as we do!

Book Excerpt: “Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn’t crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire.

New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn’t explain why he always finds her no matter how far she runs.

When her well-meaning boss puts a PI on her case, Mackenzie comes face to face with the incredible truth: magic is real, and whatever spell has kept her hidden and separate from the paranormal world is rapidly deteriorating.

With time running out, she has no choice but to trust Jackson as he struggles to uncover the truth of her past-and her destiny.”

Don’t Do Anything you don’t want to explain to the paramedics!

"Simon Archer" overheard on 106.5 The Arch

From Cute Pics

The Gates of Fire

By Steven Pressfield
1998

ISBN 978-0385492515

An historic fiction concerning the Battle of Thermopylae as told by the sole survivor of the Spartan defenders. There are a few glaring historical inaccuracies but nothing that is so overwhelming that I wanted to stop reading. The action starts very close to the beginning of the story and does not let up until the last page.

We start the story, as told by a Spartan regular named Xeones while on his deathbed in the Persian camp, from his childhood days as a Spartan. His training and the friendships he forges are the prominent elements of the story up to the battle. If I said any more I fear that I would be taking away some of the magic that comes from a first reading of this compelling story.

A wonderful depiction of Leonidas and his band of brothers as they pledge their lives to the survival of their homeland.

A must read for Martial Artists and Soldiers everywhere.

"Go, way-farer, bear news to Sparta’s town
that here, their bidding done, we laid us down."
--Translation of the monument at the Gates of Fire

* Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
* Publisher: Pocket (October 1, 1997)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0671891685
* ISBN-13: 978-0671891688


This is another book I just finished – for the second time <g> It’s pretty good reading – just don’t take it as totally factual!

Basically I read the back cover of this book and since it mentions some of my long ago relatives (the Sixkillers) I just had to read it. Most people are well aware that Larry McMurtry is a good author of western type books so I won’t go into much about that. I thoroughly enjoyed this book – it’s written in typical McMurtry style (altho Diana Ossana is listed as co-author) Low key but filled with details that would seem to be typical of life back then in Oklahoma territory, it tells the story of Zeke Proctor and his friend, Ned Christie. Both men existed in real life – there is a lot of info on the web especially about Ned Christie, a kind of folk hero at the time. The two men were good friends and the book tells the story of their lives during a rather lawless time of history not long after the civil war. Loosely based on facts, this novel still gives one a good feel for the times and the place where it all happens. Neither man is portrayed as a typical hero which gives the novel the feel of an autobiographical book. Lots of gun play and action along with down home humor and talk – great book about the Cherokee people at that

Okay – this is a new one that I just read and it was very very good – so here is a review for you to post – I can probably send you a ton of them since I read like 2-3 books a week but I’ll start with this one (and relax I don’t intend on sending that many reviews in every week!)

**Cover of book will be uploaded shortly**

From Publishers Weekly
The originality of Rothfuss’s outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution. Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as ’Quothe’ "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who’s presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family’s traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives—his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star. (actually taken from Amazon site)


This book was a real find – caught me up in it’s world within a few paragraphs and kept my interest til the end. It’s the first in a trilogy with the second due to come out in 2009, so I must wait a long time to see the next one but no matter, I’m willing to wait for something that I felt was good. The book jacket compares Patrick Rothfuss’s book to the Arabian Nights, the Harry Potter series and the Lord of the Rings. My own opinion is it belongs up there with the Lord of the Rings type of books (but I’m not willing to say it belongs next to it yet) and can compare it more to Terry Goodkind’s series. Easy to read – nice and long so it doesn’t end quickly and altho there are more to come, doesn’t leave you feeling like you are still missing something. Believable world, great characters that are well fleshed out and a continuous story line that holds your interest.

If you are a fantasy buff, and like trilogies, this one is a good bet. Kvothe – the main character is not a perfect person but his characterization is well done and the other members of the story line are believable and entertaining. The author does use some humor in appropriate situations but basically this is a great fantasy novel. Give it a try, I’m sure you’ll like it.