What is happening in the Life of Author Kim Vermaak
Every two to three years, an insane idea pops into my mind… “Let’s build a 1000 piece puzzle.” I go on this epic quest because I want to do something with my family. It is one of those times where we all jump into the task at hand, and there is no sibling bickering. And […]
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I am a bit of a movie and series addict. I look for series that are clever, have a different slant and that I immerse myself into the culture of the time. Recently, I stumbled across a series called “The Chosen”, which is a television drama based on the life of Jesus of Nazareth. I
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This week I started working on my timeline. My editor had made a significant number of comments, in fact over 500 of them. But try as I might, the online document that we shared was not budging. The documents and its suggestions were far too large. We are currently sitting on 95 185 words and
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This week I found myself sobbing as I looked at a message from a friend on my phone. I felt powerless when I saw her pain. She experienced a loss that is so devastating and final that I can not even imagine the pain. My sense of hopelessness came from the fact that there is
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I never imagined I would write about dragons. I had watched the Hobbit and parts of Game of Thrones and I found I loved these medieval style fantasies. Medieval times were brutal and devoid of the luxuries and technologies we accept as a normal way of life. People had to use all their natural skills
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Have you ever wondered if some medieval rulers had a mental illness? Here I share a list of medieval rulers with mental illness and the conditions that scholars believed they had. Charles VI of France Lived: 1368–1422Ruled 1380–1422Known as Charles le Fou (“Charles the Mad”), he suffered from bouts of psychosis, including glass delusion. Glass
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What I like about the story of Sleeping Beauty is that to get to the Princess, the Prince had to clear his way through all the thorns. I believe one of the greatest tragedies is that we have lost the true purpose of stories and that is to impart wisdom. Inside each of us lies
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I know a non-fiction author who told me that his former mentor used to look at “urgent or emergency” matters this way… “Will someone die if you don’t do this right now?” Granted the mentor came from a military background and what we loosely call a matter of life or death is very different if
In the last two weeks, I have had to ask myself this very question. Trust is an important part of being human, as is faith. But there are things we can not anticipate that come our way that can shake our world. My daughter’s fiance’s flight was cancelled two hours before he was due to
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I recently watched a documentary called the Red Pill. It was about men’s rights activists. The documentary posed some interesting questions about how we perceived people’s roles based on their gender. I can’t say that I am much of an activist. There is so much emotion going on in the different activist groups and a
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