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R J Blain and Grave Humor

Grave Humor
by R.J. Blain
(A Magical Romantic Comedy)
Publication date: May 12th 2020
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Paranormal, Romance

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Most days, Anwen regrets working at a funeral home despite the good pay. With the residents no longer inclined to stay in their coffins where they belong, shes got her hands full making sure everyone follows the rules:

In the funeral home, there is no screaming, no murdering, no...

Margaret Maron – Three questions & a cover

Three Questions and a Cover a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the authors covers.

Margaret Maron is the author of thirty novels and three collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into 17 languages.

A native Tar Heel, she still lives on her familys century farm a few...

Lighten Your Mental Load

Im so happy to be a stop on the blog tour for Amy Thornton Shanklands latest book Lighten Your Mental Load. Youll find a summary and buying options below. Maybe youd like to know why Amy is the best person to write this book, though, so heres a little bit about her to get you started:

Amy Thornton Shankland, GPC, has been battling the mental load for over 29 years. She is a former Dale Carnegie instructor, has been a grant professional for 18 years, is a columnist for the Hamilton County...

It takes a garden to feed a village

This post originally appeared on my blog in the summer of 2011, just after Id finished my Month of Local Eating (more on that later), and it also appeared on Homegrown.org.

A while back, The Outlaw Farmer asked: Is it possible to feed the world on locally, sustainably grown vegetables without the use of insecticides and chemical fertilizers? Could the earth produce enough organic plants to feed 6.92 billion people?

For almost all of human existence, family farms fed the world as a matter of...

Natural-born writer or a victim of fate?

Sometimes the same topic crops up without any obvious connecting thread over and over within the space of a few days. When that happens, I figure its time to examine it more closely.

This week its been all about whether there are natural-born writers or just people who write because somewhere along the way, they landed on the writing path. Well, heres what I think:

Theres an ancient text known as the Bhagavad Gita, which tells the story of Arjuna and his encounter with Krishna. Arjuna is a...

Follow me to Paradise….

Image by Sandeep Handa from Pixabay

Yoga in India a thousandor even fifty!years ago looked nothing like the commercial venture that is now an integral part of mainstream America.

When I first heard the term yoga it was reported as another one of those wacky activities the Beatles enjoyed. Classes were rare outside of L.A. and New England, and the women who participated wore leotards and tightsthe standard costume for any athletic endeavor back then (except for Jack LaLannes jumpsuit).

There...

Here’s how you can help hummingbirds

Image by Paul Brennan from Pixabay

I spotted the first hummer of the year at my feeder this morning! Hummingbird arrival time varies from region to region, so I usually put out the hummingbird nectar long before I could reasonably expect the little beauties to show up.

Would you like to enjoy hummingbirds at your place? Its easier than you think. First of all, stop putting out that nasty red-dye nectar that costs too much and actually harms the hummers.

The best way to feed a hummingbird is...

If you can’t reuse it, refuse it

Inspired by Susan Freinkels book Plastic: A Toxic Love Story,  Ive set a goal to reduce the amount of single-use plastic I bring into my life in 2020. Heres my collection for the second month of the year.
February plastic Much like the previous month, February brought me a pile of food wrappers and a Better World Books plastic mailer. The pic above shows only the plastic that I cant recycle or repurpose in any reasonable way.

Other plastic items that are in limbo include chip bags and...

“The world is changed by your example.”

Single-use plastic in March

The month of March turned our world upside-down, didnt it? Self-isolating became the way of life we never imagined would happen to us.

Despite having been shopping only once all monthbefore the country went into shut-downI managed to accumulate about the same amount of single-use plastic trash as always. And it continues to be food packaging that creates the bulk of the problem, along with the plastic mailing wrapper from Bookpage and the plastic container that...

Do something drastic – cut the plastic!

My January plastic count

Inspired by Susan Freinkels book Plastic: A Toxic Love Story,  Ive set a goal to reduce the amount of single-use plastic I bring into my life in 2020.

Heres my collection for the first month of the year. Thats a bag full of food packaging at the top. In fact, youll see that most of it is food packaging. And most of it came into my house before I took the pledge, but wasnt emptied until after the first day of January.

Please note that there are none of those...