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The Village Needs to Keep the Peace

I feel ridiculous even suggesting it, but we, The Village, *really* need to keep the peace right now, because the fighting has already begun. But let me be specific. I’m not for one second suggesting that we don’t stand up against injustice, unfairness, prejudice, bullying or actions intended to harm others, but let’s acknowledge a…

Birthdays are like buses

You know that old story about how you wait ages for a bus and then two come at once? Sometimes birthdays are a bit like that – there’s a long, dry spell with no parties, no cake, no presents – and then BAM! there’s a whole BUNCH of them all at once! Today I’m VERY…

A Slip of the Lit – Kristi Campbell (Author Interview)

My lovelies, *this* week I’m excited, because I have here a FRIST of epic proportions. Whenever I mention her name in the Blogosphere, the person to whom I’m speaking tends to get a bit frenzied and start using exclamations like “I LOVE her!” and “she’s the REAL DEAL” and “OMG!” And yaknow what? They should…

Ten Things of Thankful 126 (Cheating) #10Thankful

Cheating. Conjures up a particular image in the mind of a certain sort of person, doesn’t it? Someone a bit despicable; a sore loser; someone so horribly entitled they can’t bear to play by the rules (of whatever social convention) in order to achieve the Thing that others gain/obtain/achieve by following the proper channels. In…

Beating The Opposition

The biggest influence in my life right now is…opposition. So many thoughts whirl around my brain, circling arguments, possibilities, current situations and future possibilities. I’m caught between ‘on one hand’, with the other hand grasping tight to the rock which borders the hard place adjacent to it. I’ve got cards close to my chest, tricks…

A Slip of the Lit – Natacha Guyot (Author Interview)

Mes amies, let me whisk you away to a land where wine flows in gorgeous rivers from the sun-soaked hills; where la pont Japonais spans a languid, flower-dappled pool; where the architecture will take your breath away, and if la cuisine doesn’t kill you from wonder and richness, the maniac driving will finish you off…we’re…

Forget Me Not

I lit candles in my fireplace today, in coloured-glass-filled lanterns, which cast bright shadows on the walls in crystal hues. I lit candles in lanterns with filigree metalwork, so that patterns danced and swayed with the flames, and the shadows were cast out (except where they were beautiful). I lit candles that were plain, in…

Ten Things of Thankful 125 (Juxtaposition) #10Thankful

So, my lovelies. Tonight is a night of NOT so much the night, and of very much whine, and also very much WINE, which means that this may not be as coherent a post as you’ve come to expect, although I suspect it will be delightfully rambly and have a whole HEAP of those glorious…

I am this moment, yours.

Sit with me a while. I’ve caught your attention, fleetingly, in between the everything-else of your world. What were you just doing? What’s next? What’s been hooked in the nets of your memory today? Which moments stand out? I want you to remember them, one at a time. Hold them gently in the cupped palms…

Ten Things of Thankful 124 (On Happy Endings) #10Thankful

If only we could just begin with the happy ending and have done with it, after all, that’s why we’re here. That’s why we get up every day – the quest for that happy ending. None of us would get out of bed otherwise. And maybe that’s the happy ending – we’re still here, getting…