News from the Raven
I just received my copy of News from the Raven: Essays from Sam Houston State University on Medieval and Renaissance Thought. I don’t have an essay in thi...
Author: Kim
Kimberly Davis spent a lot of years sailing. She is currently a writer, editor, and teacher. She also designs websites and is the director at Madville Publishing.
Teaching Online: A Case Study
My paper, “Facing the Challenges Inherent in Teaching Online: A Case Study” was published in a scholarly journal produced by the University of Houst...
Strings of Solace
By Kim Davis © 2011 Late, late, late! It seemed like no matter how early she started getting ready she just could not get out of the apartment on time. Now she ...
The Hummingbird Minuet
The hummingbirds were plentiful in Madisonville that year. I sat in the cool, still morning, Gathering my thoughts; Deciding whether to beseech or assault the d...
Hog Hunters in Texas
How the problem started Hog hunters have seem like they are everywhere in Texas any more. All over the state, farmers and ranchers are having big problems with ...
“Mommy, I See Jack!”
March 25, 1996 Journal Entry “…With Jack so unwell, I have to admit that I’m just waiting for him to die. This clinging to life with drugs and constant pain an...
Bad Things Really DO Happen at Sea
© 2004, Kim DavisThis article originally appeared inthe Extraordinary Jobs for Ordinary People online newsletter. For several years now, I’ve been writing about...
What makes a “Weather Guy”?
An interview with Jim Kline of the National Weather Service originally published in the Employment Times, May 19, 2003 By Kim Davis © 2003 All of us who are inv...
Christmas Winds
I’d met Paul in early November. I had dined with other catamaran crews, and stopped for a last beer on the way out through the quay-side bar packed with yachtie...
Really Old
One of us is really old Crotchety and demanding Forgets she’s had her dinner And yells like she’s panhandling. Friends of every stripe despair Wishi...