Category: holiday
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Happy to be Canadian
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I hope all Canadians are enjoying our national holiday today. While we’re not highly demonstrative, we can be roused to defend our beautiful country, our freedoms, our culture. Here’s to being proud citizens of Canada! (photo of a Canadian flag fluttering in the breeze on a cruise of the 1000…
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What’s Your Pleasure?
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Hot, sweaty, panting? Sweetly suggested after The Kiss? One of the problems that always comes up for authors is how to portray sex in their novel. Even if the book isn’t a ‘romance’ per se, there will be interactions between two human beings (or not so human – there’s an…
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The ancient (and racy) origins of holiday feasting
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I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god,mover of the earth and fruitless seagod of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae.A two-fold office the gods allotted you,O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horsesand a saviour of ships!Hail, Poseidon, Holder of…
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The Mysteries of the Magi
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When I was around five years old, my grandfather passed away, and I remember his funeral chiefly for the overwhelming amount of incense – so oppressive and acrid that it made me cry. (I was sensitive to smells at an early age.) One of the typical components of incense used…
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A Peanuts holiday classic
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Charlie Brown: I don’t care. We’ll decorate it and it’ll be just right for our play. Besides, I think it needs me. One late November, while searching for a fresh evergreen tree to cut down for Christmas, my hubby and I came upon a beautiful Scotch Pine standing all by…
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Happy Halloween!
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Hope you have a fantastically eerie Halloween this year! If you’re not going out, reading books 1 & 2 of my trilogy would be a great way to spend a quieter evening.
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Happy Halloween!
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October needs to be longer than 31 days, IMHO, so we could enjoy more of it. After all the build-up of the season, I hope you have a marvelously eerie evening.
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The Great Art of Light and Shadow
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Phantasmagoria and Magic Lanterns “Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.” Les Brown Terrifying audiences isn’t a modern invention. There’s something about shared horror that has captivated people for several centuries, huddling in a darkened room waiting to be scared out of…