I took part in Holistic Wayfarer’s Race around the World [which is still running] and this is an intermission catch-up for those of us who’ve participated so far. You should check out the other Race posts are they are truly fascinating. A Holistic Journey So I’m taking a breather, slowing my pace, taking stock. Behind …
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The land of Terre d’Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land beautiful and its people welcoming and it was here that Elu and those angels who came from heaven to walk with him made their home in ages past. The ensuing race, the D’Angelines, that …
Writer Charlotte Brontë was born on this day, April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was supposedly the most outspoken and ambitious of the Brontës, which was unusual for a woman of her time and background. In fact Charlotte was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt …
This award nomination is a great delight to receive as it comes from one of my favorite bloggers Lydia at A Idiot’s Guide To Parenting. It is a hilarious blog written by someone who is in no way an idiot and is in fact my favorite funny mummy. Lydia has a sharp and entertaining sense …
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On this day in 1912, Bram Stoker died at No. 26 St George’s Square, London. He was cremated, and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. Born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 8, 1847, Bram Stoker published his first literary work, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, a handbook …
It has been confirmed the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez died today in Mexico City at the age of 87 after battling a long illness. He is considered the most popular Spanish writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century and has achieved literary celebrity that has spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles …
Hands up who enjoys interacting and chatting, debating and dueling and all the fun activities you discover when you join the blogging world. [pause for a hand count] Ok those of you with your hands down I think that if you’re like me you started this as a venture to talk about things you were …
Do you ever have days when the highest form of thought you’re capable of achieving wouldn’t compare to the sentience of a cabbage? I do and boy was yesterday one of them. If you had spied me sitting here staring at the computer keys I would have looked like some poor unfortunate time traveler dumped …
It’s overcast so often and cold but when it’s warm there is the fish pond in the back yard. I would sit and watch the different fish swirl and flash. My poor mother was always terrified that I’d fall in. I was only 2yrs old but I remember the pond and the sun and …
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Copyright by Incidental Comics I’ll admit, I’ve considered at some point I’ve wanted to be a teacher, doctor, astronomer, astronaut, athlete, chef, painter, director and costume designer , and I’m not even out of school yet! I’ve settled (at the moment) to pursue something in writing. If you could quit…
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