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Beat St. John’s!

The football rallies at Gonzaga were madness, something I’d never seen before. Hundreds of male voices, shouting, singing, and chanting. Most of them were held in the auditorium. The room shook, adding an edge of terror to the proceedings, especially after the Kohlman Hall collapse.

Nothing matched the rallies aimed at our archrival, St. John’s. The two schools have been battling since 1918 in what Wikipedia says is the “oldest high school rivalry” between Catholic high schools in the U.S.

At m...

Timeless Keepsakes

It was May when my critique partners and I began an adventure. We decided to each write a short story, bundle them together, and create a self-published book. Now, six months later, the first of many Timeless Tales anthologies is about to be released.

This was a great learning process from being tutored in the art of the short story to launching our own LLC and to now, just a few days away from publication.

We’re most fortunate to have an introduction by NYTimes and USA Today best selling autho...

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Eye of Newt

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I by William Shakespeare

Round about the cauldron go;

In the poison’d entrails throw.

Toad, that under cold stone

Days and nights hast thirty one

Swelter’d venom sleeping got,

Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the cauldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,

Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,

Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,

For a charm of powerful...

Strange Love

Halloween is here. Ghosts, goblins, super heroes, and princesses will soon roam the neighborhood looking for treats. At this time of year, when the weird, wacky and unusual seems more acceptable, my thoughts turn to those relationships that, on the surface, seem unusual. Odd. Scary, even. I’m talking about strange love. With its strange highs and strange lows (sorry, Depeche Mode, I couldn’t help but quote your amazing 80s hit.)

I reached out on Facebook and asked my friends for some of their...

Tuesdays at the Theater: GRAVITY

Blurb via Rotten Tomatoes (read their reviews here):

GRAVITY, directed by Oscar (R) nominee Alfonso Cuaron, stars Oscar (R) winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone...

How I Discovered the Meaning of Hubris and Lived to Tell About It

There was a time, before my current calling as a librarian, when I was engaged in All Things Fabric. If it had warp and woof, I was in. Game for nearly everything fiber-related, I balked only at spinning and weaving.

Then came the Time of the First Communion Dress.

I’d already made my daughter’s dress for her First Communion. It was an intricate confection of shadow embroidery and French heirloom sewing. Attaching the lace to the hem alone took three hours one day and I drove to, of all things,...

Guest interview – Rebecca Clark

We’ve had lots of guest on Blame It On The Muse – and we love them – so it’s really fun to “introduce” one of our own – Rebecca Clark – who just released a new book.

Rebecca J. Clark has wanted to write romance novels since she read her first Harlequin Romance at age eleven. When she’s not writing, she works as a personal fitness trainer and group exercise instructor, where she teaches Pilates, fitball and yoga. She feels very lucky to have not one, but two dream jobs: writing and fitness. Oth...

Basic Training

As Frank, the conductor on the 5:35 train to Baltimore, punched my ten-trip ticket, I said, “Take me to Cuba.” That got me a laugh, and a nickname — Castro. For the next two years, he always greeted me with that, and within a month, that’s who was to most of the other passengers on the two-car train that took Doug, me, and occasionally Johnny to the Berwyn, Maryland stop.

Sometimes we’d get to Union Station an hour before departure, and we’d help flip the seats so they all faced forward. It wa...