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Roads Guide to the Galaxy

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  • Halloween cocktail and cupcakes on a black background

    April fun in a crazy world

    Why are you looking at a graphic of Halloween stuff above? Because I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of the world at the moment! It’s finally Spring, and I want to have some fun after a long and stressful winter. April is “Halfway to Halloween” month – also known as Halfoween. Thanks…

  • Characters from Alice in Wonderland on an impressionistic floral background. Text: March Madness in Bookland

    March Madness in Bookland

    ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ said Alice. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the cat. ‘We’re all mad here.’ Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll Do you also feel as if we’ve all tumbled down a rabbit-hole into a strange world where nothing makes sense? When I was previewing selected themes for…

  • Irish landscape with sheep (photo by author), text: Irish travel: inspired by books

    Irish travel: inspired by books

    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 the Road of adventure as…

  • Author trying to befriend a reluctant guanaco in Peru

    Being a bold woman today

    “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 plain of Tiahuanuco.” Peru; incidents…

  • Assorted iconic characters from movies, on a green to blue graduated background. Text: Characters from books to screen: good, bad, misguided

    Characters from books to screen: good, bad, misguided

    About 30 minutes into the first Lord of the Rings movie, I was ticked off, and spent the next three hours fuming. Now, for that movie my problem wasn’t with the casting – except for the ridiculous choice of actress to play Lady Arwen – but with the many, many changes to the plot and…

  • Ancient landscape with a temple and scales showing a plant of equal value to gold

    When life mirrors my books!

    My hubby, along with a number of people I know, isn’t a particular fan of vegetables. He’ll eat them under sufferance because he knows they’re good for him, and because I won’t let him eat just meat, potatoes and gravy all the time. So I can only imagine his reaction to being charged a plant’s…

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