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June 1, 2016
Meet Rohn Federbush
Visit Ann Arbor Author Rohn Federbush on June 18th from Noon to 5pm at the Ann Arbor Book Festival on Washington Street between 4th and 5th Streets. Her latest release St. Joan’s Architect will be on sale In the meantime take advantage of her FREE BOOK Hastings’ Dead Unbiased Reviews Welcome
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May 25, 2016
Shakespeare’s Lexicon of St. Joan
Did Shakespeare vent his spleen in Henry VI? Was the dialogue of his characters a convenient excuse for describing France’s savior with vitriolic adjectives? St. Joan didn’t deserve to be called: a mad chambermaid, a beggar’s brat, algayne of the devil, drab of Lorraine, Armagnac’s whore, or the devil’s milkmaid. The virgin leader of France’s [...]
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May 18, 2016
Voices Who Chose St. Joan
St. Michael the Archangel, the patron saint of France, of course appeared to Joan of Arc when she witnessed the English robbing her village of livestock to feed their armies. And when Romèe, Joan’s mother, refused to force her into marriage, St. Margaret of Antioch became her steadfast companion. Margaret’s mother, portrayed symbolically as the [...]
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May 11, 2016
Fictions of Joan of Arc
Sackville West, in his book “Saint Joan of Arc,” tries to prove every miracle of Joan’s. However he concedes Joan used every method necessary to succeed in freeing France from the English. Did she contrive with her uncle to persuade the general to provide her with troops by the miracle of hens laying eggs after she [...]
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May 3, 2016
IWSG: Author Motivation
The idea of “St. Joan’s Architect on Mont Saint Michel” paranormal novel possessed both the setting and the haunting element, but the characters at first refused to appear on the page. As the mother of two sons, my relationship with my own mother felt less resolved than perhaps authors’ with daughters. My two older sisters [...]
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April 29, 2016
When did you first hear of Joan of Arc?
I remember Mark Twain’s epiphany. As a boy in Hannibal, Missouri the page of a book about St. Joan flew across his path. He ran home to ask his mother if such a person actually existed in history. Assured the courageous damsel was real; Samuel Clemmons determined to be a writer. His daughters testified that [...]
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April 20, 2016
1995 Trip to Mont Saint Michel
Mont Saint Michel’s Grand Staircase leads to the Abby. My long awaited 1995 trip included pilgrimages from all over France. One over weight woman was on her knees on the rough stone step. I reached out my hand to assist her up; but she waved me off. I was ten when I put stones in [...]
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April 13, 2016
Mont Saint Michel
How many years had I planned to visit Mont Saint Michel? The old Sunday night Disney program began with Tinker Bell swirling her magic wand around a castle. When I first saw the outlines of the small island in my local St. Charles, Illinois newspaper’s travel section, I mistakenly identified Disney’s castle. Symbolically the fate [...]
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April 5, 2016
IWSG: I Remember
–the taste of Mother’s cream puffs for supper. On the farm she had all the necessary ingredients. I remember Daddy making strawberry ice cream with the dry-ice steam rising from the bucket while he turned the handle. I remember my sister Lori’s salt apple pie when she changed the sugar to the salt canister in [...]
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March 30, 2016
Moving Mist
As high as the tree tops across the peony garden the mist blocks our view. A slight warm breeze moves the white cloud across the ground revealing more and more of the budding peonies. I’m sitting with my friend, Paula as we eat lunch. I motion for her to notice the moving cloud. She’s very [...]
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