Peg Herring's Blog - Posts Tagged "fear"
Putting Stress into Perspective
The best way to overcome the stress of modern life, I have found, is to consider the past. For me, it's the Tudors, my favorite era. I might worry about the future, but no one is going to drag me into a dungeon, feed me on moldy bread and brackish water, and then burn me at the stake or slice my head off with an axe.
I might stress over the multitude of tasks I am expected to do, but if I don't measure up, no one is going to brand a letter on my forehead so everyone will know what sort of failure I am.
And I can feel overcome by the ever-quickening pace of the world without fear of spending sun-up to sun-down in the stocks with passers-by encouraged to throw at my face whatever nasty things they might find lying around.
And since I'm still working on that Katherine Parr costume for the RWA conference ( in Orlando in July), I will add that, whatever my worries and dreads in this life, I don't have to face them in hoops, corsets, and ten pounds of velvet fabric!
I might stress over the multitude of tasks I am expected to do, but if I don't measure up, no one is going to brand a letter on my forehead so everyone will know what sort of failure I am.
And I can feel overcome by the ever-quickening pace of the world without fear of spending sun-up to sun-down in the stocks with passers-by encouraged to throw at my face whatever nasty things they might find lying around.
And since I'm still working on that Katherine Parr costume for the RWA conference ( in Orlando in July), I will add that, whatever my worries and dreads in this life, I don't have to face them in hoops, corsets, and ten pounds of velvet fabric!
Halloween Survey
What's your favorite Halloween/scary song/poem?
What's the scariest story you ever read?
What movie scared you so badly it took ages to recover?
I'll go first!
My favorite poem is James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie."
"...An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!"
The scariest story I ever read is probably Poe's "The Premature Burial," because I have big-time claustrophobia. (As a side note, I had some trouble writing the ending for *Dead for the Money,* because they were climbing the Mackinac Bridge, and I also have big-time acrophobia. I'm just a bundle of phobias.)
The scariest movie was *The Birds.* I had to drive home after watching it by myself, and I was terrified that birds were going to start dive-bombing my windshield. (Hey, I was seventeen--and Hitchcock was GOOD!)
What's the scariest story you ever read?
What movie scared you so badly it took ages to recover?
I'll go first!
My favorite poem is James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie."
"...An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!"
The scariest story I ever read is probably Poe's "The Premature Burial," because I have big-time claustrophobia. (As a side note, I had some trouble writing the ending for *Dead for the Money,* because they were climbing the Mackinac Bridge, and I also have big-time acrophobia. I'm just a bundle of phobias.)
The scariest movie was *The Birds.* I had to drive home after watching it by myself, and I was terrified that birds were going to start dive-bombing my windshield. (Hey, I was seventeen--and Hitchcock was GOOD!)
