I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   How much time do tv chefs really get on these cooking competition shows?  Plus…we’ve all heard the term cold feet.  Why is it associated with a persons wedding day?   I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a

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Podcasting is proving to finally be a business's winning tool. I got into podcasting in 2010 because as a radio companies production director I was searching for newer ways to promote business success. My larger-than-life broadcast company literally said to me, "I don't know what you're doing but don't stop." Today it's evolved into the very vision I had 16 years ago. Plus... are we getting too personal on our podcasts? Taylor Swift's entire love life is present, can hosts do the same?Become a

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If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. You'd think this is an ancient lesson. Not so true. It doesn't end there. The dragon plays a huge role in many daily decisions. How are you playing your dragon and what's the history behind it?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-view-from-the-writing-instrument--1023245/support.

"The Munificence of Prince Borghese" opens in Rome, where a proud servant is dismissed from the most generous household in the city — and finds that reputation has shut every other door against him. As months pass, his family loses furniture, clothing, and finally food itself. Driven to a breaking point no decent man reaches lightly, he steps out of the shadows with a knife. What he takes, and what Prince Borghese does in response, sets in motion an act of extraordinary generosity that carries a

"Giacinta Marescotti" tells the story of a proud, hot-tempered noblewoman who rails against being sent to a convent while her quieter sister is married off — exactly the opposite of what both had wanted. Giacinta transplants her aristocratic lifestyle behind convent walls, treating the other sisters with barely disguised contempt. When a bishop pauses outside her lavish cell and utters just two words — "a smell" — something in Giacinta cracks open, setting her on a slow, genuine path toward

"The Beautiful Englishwoman" opens in Rome, where a wealthy, accomplished woman has vowed to marry only the man who matches her ideal portrait exactly. When a sharp-witted suitor turns her fastidiousness back on her with equal wit, an unexpected love blooms — and quickly becomes a secret marriage. For thirteen years the couple live devotedly in a hidden villa, until a titled father's ruthless interference sets in motion a chain of violence that leaves no one untouched.Become a supporter of this

"The Princess and the Satyr" tells the story of a young princess who, after becoming lost in the forest during a hunt, is taken by a selvaggio—a half-man, half-goat creature from the deep woods—who loves her fiercely though she can never love him in return. Ten years pass. When she finally sees a ship and her chance at escape, the selvaggio confronts her with devastating choices across the water. The story builds to a crescendo of loss and will, leaving its darkest moments unspoken.Become a

"The Foolish Woman" is a wry folk tale in which a husband, exasperated by his wife's absurd blunders, sets off to find three people in the world more foolish than she is — or return alone. What he discovers along the road is a princess baffled by a hat brim, a man who has knotted a rope into uselessness, and a widow swindled out of her firewood by a charming stranger. Each encounter is funnier and more unsettling than the last, and the husband's certainty slowly turns into something more

"The King of Portugal" opens on a frail monarch whose vulnerability invites a scheming prince to seize power through calculated cruelty — imprisoning the old king on bread and water, waiting for nature to do his work. What baffles the prince is that the king grows stronger each visit from his daughter, not weaker. Guards watch, searches are made, and still no explanation comes — until it does. At the story's heart is a young woman's desperate, extraordinary act of devotion, and the unexpected grace

"The Old Miser" delivers a sharp, darkly comic portrait of greed meeting its match. A clever young woman targets a notorious miser, convincing him she lives on air alone — thin enough to be believed, shrewd enough to exploit his obsession with cost. Each visit to his home, she walks away richer, with coins stuck to pitch-coated soles. The scheme unfolds with deadpan precision until a single gleaming coin, dangling mid-step during Carnival, forces her hand — and the truth tumbles out with devastating

Doctor Grillo is a biting fable about a resentful servant who steals his master's identity—his gown, his name, and his reputation—and sets himself up as a celebrated physician in a distant land. When two lucky cures cement the impostor's fame, the real Doctor Grillo arrives to reclaim his name, only to find that truth is no match for a crowd that has already made up its mind. The story builds toward a darkly ironic trial in a dying girl's sickroom, where chaos and delay seal one man's fate

"The Happy Couple" is a sharp fable about a devoted husband and wife whose unshakeable love draws the devil's envy. He enlists a witch to drive a wedge between them — planting a dark rumour in the husband's ear, and tricking the wife into standing over her sleeping husband with a razor. When he wakes to find her there, blade in hand, the moment teeters on the edge of disaster. Everything depends on whether two people will speak honestly in the dark.Become a supporter of this podcast:

"What Happened in the Room of a Hotel" opens with a count and countess whose bond rests on a solemn mutual promise never to think ill of each other. When the countess arranges a playful prank involving her brother — a stranger to her husband — a single glimpse through a window is enough to shatter that promise. The count vanishes into grief; the countess follows on foot, city to country, until chance and exhaustion deliver them both to the same roadside inn, and the same small room.Become a