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In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected...

A mantra is an utterance that is considered to have spiritual power. The word comes from Sanskrit, and literally means “instrument of thought”. A mantra is constructed from a sound, a word, or a phrase that is repeated aloud, or internally, over and over to aid in concentration, or express a stro...

It’s Christmas time!

You might have guessed from the title that this post is in some way about Christmas. If so, you have guessed correctly. If not, there’s still hope for you yet.

Seriously though, it is Christmas time, probably my favorite time of year. Christmas songs (especially Roger Whitaker...

Merry Christmas!

December . . . the very word conjures thoughts of Christmas: hoping for snow . . . family . . . Christmas lights . . . cookies . . . pine trees . . . shopping for the perfect thoughtful gift for a loved one . . . joy, love, smiles, cheer . . . Christmas carols on repeat . . . C...

Sometimes we become so focused on the nitty-gritty technical aspects of writing and publishing that we forget the power of the unconscious mind, the part that understands story at a fundamental level.

In today's episode, Caroline Donahue talks about how to use the Tarot to find a way into your...

Here’s another excerpt from my Captain’s Log for December 13. This time it’s again from 1977, so I was toward the end of my first semester as a music major (flute) at Mars Hill College.

Captain’s Log: Stardate 121.377 [December 13, 1977]

I’m at home, in bed, with a cold Mountain Dew. This is the...

This afternoon while it was 38ºC outside, I sat at my desk and opened my current manuscript. It had been a while since I’d written and, although I’ve missed creating sentences, I’d needed the break.

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I’ve been working on my second novel for most of this year. So far, I’ve made fou...

2018 is coming to an end. It was a busy year for me. A lot of things happened this year.

I got five children books published.

The sales of my books reached the figure of 700 copies. ( For me it is an achievement)

A lot of public and school libraries added my books to their libraries.

I conducted many...

Dear Making Comics 2 students,

This has just been added to our Spring 2019 playlist.

I’ve listened to it a thousand times and it still makes me crazy.

Sincerely,

Prof. ??????????

I’ve just achieved a milestone with Amazon reviews of Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible. I now have every important kind of review there is. I have five-star reviews, I have one-star reviews, and I have just gotten the coveted “my book showed up as promised” review. It usuall...

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“Redheads are evil,” Finn said from between the woman’s legs.
She moaned softly and ran her fingers through his hair. “Are they now?”
Finn bit softly the patch of red hair over her clitoris, and kept on talking, breathing and brushing his lips on it. “Yes. Didn’t you hear? It says so o...

Vandaag, 14 december, is het Paarse Vrijdag. En op Paarse Vrijdag trekken duizenden scholieren en studenten iets paars aan om solidariteit te tonen aan homoseksuelen, biseksuelen, lesbiennes, transgenders en alle andere vormen van liefde en genders. Ik heb het geluk dat ik op school ook een bijdr...

…is the number of poems that we–Eric Plattner & I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel for such people as these…  …& these: Thanks so much to the Radisson, as always, for having us, and to everyone who commissioned a one of a kind poem on a December Wednes...

Can we just snuggle up and eat lobster bisque for the rest of the year?

My life is forever changed now that I can make lobster bisque at home. This is AMAZING.

I’m not a total lobster bisque newbie. Remember when I made those lobster bisque pot pies? Those things are darn good. And I used the bas...

The window of opportunity to write and post this update is more along the lines of a porthole, really. Meaning it’s very small indeed. I have no time, my friends. So, I thought I’d just post my quick thoughts on the 2019 list of Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees, which was announced today. How...

The following article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for the very end of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Like literally the very end. No more scenes after this scene. So if you’d like not to be spoiled, we recommend bookmarking the page and returning once you’ve seen the movie. If you’ve already see...

I wish I were on top of things. But I’m not. So I’ll pretend I’m “creative.” Ha haa! Meanwhile, my find for you today is another gift to the church through Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller: Martin Luther’s On the Councils and the Church.

You can read the official announcement here.

In briefest terms, Luther...

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The marriage of Hades and Persephone blossoms and their mysterious grove in the world below thrives…
…while the sunlit world withers.

Demeter holds out in Eleusis, pushing both mankind and the gods to frozen starvation in order to reclaim her daughter. The newly married rulers of t...

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‘Comfort’ is another of those concepts that has me going, ‘yeah, I wish’, before berating myself for being ungrateful. At the moment I’m sitting slightly skewed, and my hands are too high, and my thighs are up against the kneehole of my desk, which isn’t actually a desk, and there’s...

positive-memes:

You deserve better.