Category: adventure
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Irish travel: inspired by books
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When I turned the final page of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I wanted to crawl back inside. While the books are overly-descriptive for some people, I found the details of Middle Earth so fascinating that I couldn’t get enough of them. I wanted to visit Middle Earth, follow…
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Being a bold woman today
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“And I may say, once for all, carefully weighing my words, that in no part of the world have I seen stones cut with such mathematical precision and admirable skill as in Peru, and in no part of Peru are there any to surpass those which are scattered over the…
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The Lost Ark, a real-life treasure hunt
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If you were going to bring back the early adventure epics to the big screen, what better story than a roguish professor and archeologist searching for the greatest lost treasure in history? The Ark of the Covenant was the most important artifact of biblical times – the repository of God’s…
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Fantasy jobs: Treasure hunter for the British Museum
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In 1998 I, my hubby and my in-laws got to pretend we were Indiana Jones for a few hours. Hubby & I had driven down to Florida to join his parents for a week at a family condo in Clearwater, and in the news before we left I saw a…
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The End of a Train Era
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In Egypt, there were miles of sand, which refused to remain pleasantly flat. It made the tracks undulate so much that it gave our train a pronounced sway – so much so that at times it felt like the car holding our cabin was going to tip right over. There…
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Curses! It’s a Mummy!
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Death will come on swift wings to whomsoever opens this chest.“It’s the curse! It’s the curse! Beware of the curse!” Beni.“Stupid, superstitious bastard.” Daniels.The Mummy, 1999 “CARNARVON’S DEATH SPREADS THEORIES ABOUT VENGEANCE; In Egypt, England, France and Here, Occultists Advance Stories of Angered Gods.LONDON, April 5.—Genuine regret is expressed here…
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Inspired by Ancient Mythology
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Along with the eerie literature and movies that were big influences for me as a child and early story-teller (Edgar Allan Poe, The Twilight Zone, etc.), I also grew up on what I loosely call ‘sword-and-sandal’ movies. Officially, the term ‘sword-and-sandal’ refers to a popular genre of Italian knock-off movies…
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A spicy holiday season
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I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. Taylor Swift Sometimes Taylor speaks for all of us. When the weather in the northern hemisphere turn harsh and the nights grow longer, comfort foods…
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125 Years of the Wizard of Emerald City
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Every holiday season when I was a child, before the advent of video recorders, my family waited for The Wizard of Oz movie to come back on the air. The scarcity and annual tradition created even more enchantment than just the magic of the story itself. That was my…
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Thick fun in the summertime
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I read an article recently that piqued my interest. It seems there’s a very recent trend to dive into “big, thick books” this summer, and the writer dissected why that might be. And since I write big, thick books, I thought about my own attraction to that type of novel.…