Summary:  It’s tough being a 14-year old boy, but it’s especially hard when you have little brothers, a friend you’re eager to impress and the added complication of those creatures from another planet…girls!  Will Adam survive his first forays with the opposite sex in one piece, and still have a friend at the end of it?

Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament. 

Rated:   K+ 13,535 words

Summary: A skeptic, a dreamer, and a true believer set out on a journey to find gold.

Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament. 

Rated:   PG  8,890 words

Summary:   Adam is given a gift.  What will he do with it?

Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament. 

Rated:   K+  5,740 words

Summary: Joe gets a chance to practice his own ‘big brother’ skills.

Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament. 

Rated:   K  6,220 words

Summary:  A heart can only break so many times, and after the traumatic losses he has suffered, Joe is convinced that living his life alone is the only way to protect his heart from shattering.  But… Is that really his intended destiny? This story takes place two years after the season 14 double-episode “Forever.”

Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament. 

Rated:   PG  8,640 words

Summary: In 2018, BTR started a writing challenge call Sourdough Starters. A Sourdough Starter is the Yeast that will activate the Dough that will be Baked into Bread. This was used in the 1800’s and is still used today. BTR’s take was to use it as a “Starter” for a bigger story. A Sourdough story is not usually fully complete. It should leave questions – what brought the characters to that point? What happens next to the characters? etc. We continued running the challenge through 2020. 

Rating: G, Word Count 2079

Summary: Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge – Add Adam into an episode after Season 6 as if he has always been there. I chose The Fighters, Season 7, Episode 30.

Rating – T, Word Count – 4662 

Summary: Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge – Add Adam into an episode as if he has always been there. I have chosen an episode from Season 12:6, Gideon the Good.

Rated: T Word Count: 8,148

Summary:  Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge.  Allow me to post here a very short story.   If it’s ok, I’ll take it back after and I’ll work on it better. With school, I had not enough time to do what I wanted to do.

Rated:  K+   Word Count:  854

SUMMARY:  This is my entry for the Missing Man Challenge.  The episode is The Other Son and Adam has been added to the story line.  The rest of the story of moving the nitroglycerin across the mountains remains intact.

rating = T       word count = 7768

Summary:  My entry for the Camp In the Pines 2018, the story grew from a pinecone about wasps attacking.  If you read it, you will find the ending familiar.  The rest of the story is a backstory for how that came to be.  This is mostly a Hoss story but all members of the family play roles in the story.

rating =T    word count = 6643

Summary: What love is all about – inspired by Joe – my favorite Cartwright.

My entry for The World Poetry Day 2018.

Rating: K Word count: 82

Summary:  Colors on the Ponderosa can come from unexpected places.  My entry for World Poetry Day.

Rating – K, WC – 112

Summary: Love comes unexpectedly to Hoss Cartwright, leaving a bittersweet memory. A poem inspired by “The Newcomers” (Season One) written by Thomas Thompson.  (Written for the World Poetry Day 2018 Challenge)

Rating: G  (550 words)

SUMMARY:  My entry for the March 2018 poetry challenge — It’s a little discussion among the brothers about loves lost which is spoken in three voices.

rating = PG13    word count = 282