Recent Posts
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On hiatus this week
I’ve been out of commission for several days due to a bug that’s been making the rounds. Will be back next week, looking at our fascination with old graveyards, as well as some of the lore around them.
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Faeries in history: cute / dangerous / erotic
If you lived in medieval times, you were constantly trying to ward off all the evil that fairies, magical beings who lurked in the woods, could foist upon you. Legends portrayed them as looking human, with a decided bent for trickery. They might be any size from tiny to our…
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The best season, and here’s why!
“I’m here to stand up for Autumn!” That was my declaration at the beginning of my winning Table Topics Speech in Toastmasters one week. First, a little background: Toastmasters is a world-wide program for learning how to do public speaking. And I did. Before I joined the in-house club at…