April is one of the most unpredictable months here in Indiana. When Hoosiers kid about having the A/C running one day and the heat running the next… it’s no joke. This month, we’ve had sweltering days, frigid days, temperate days, rain, sun, thunderstorms, fog, and snow. Just another typical spring here in the Midwest.
While those ever-changing conditions may leave some locals daydreaming about moving someplace more temperate and predictable, I was in paradise trekking around with my camera and capture the essence spring—beads of raindrops sitting like jewels on delicate tulip petals; snow-encrusted samaras bowing on the red maple branches; bees flitting from crocus to crocus in the sunshine. Each day offered a new and beautiful glimpse at this fleeting season.
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I'm an award-winning fantasy author, artist, and photographer from La Porte, Indiana. My poetry, short fiction, and memoir works have been featured in various anthologies and journals since 2005, and several of my poems are available in the Indiana Poetry Archives. The first three novels in my Chronicles of Avilésor: War of the Realms series have received awards from Literary Titan.
After some time working as a freelance writer, I was shocked by how many website articles are actually written by paid "ghost writers" but published under the byline of a different author. It was a jolt seeing my articles presented as if they were written by a high-profile CEO or an industry expert with decades of experience. I'll be honest; it felt slimy and dishonest. I had none of the credentials readers assumed the author of the article actually had. Ghost writing is a perfectly legal, astonishingly common practice, and now, AI has entered the playing field to further muddy the waters. It's hard to trust who (or what) actually wrote the content you'll read online these days.
That's not the case here at On The Cobblestone Road. I do not and never will pay a ghost writer, then slap my name on their work as if I'd written it. This website is 100% authentic. No outsourcing. No ghost writing. No AI-generated content. It's just me... as it should be.
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