People often ask me why I write medieval fantasy. Well, the answer is simple. I love the history, art and passion of the time. Middle ages folk lived by the land and their raw talents. Yes, they had unscrupulous kings who milked the people of their hard-earned wages and well hygiene standards in most places […]
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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 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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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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I made it through Easter without gorging on Easter eggs. Now that is quite something. In my teens, I would walk to the stores and buy a large slab of chocolate and eat it on the way home. My passion for chocolate when I was in my teens mortified my father when I had some
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This past weekend we moved. It was probably not the most dramatic move we have ever made, because it was from an upstairs unit to a downstairs unit. Although my teen was extremely helpful in the move, she had a rather critical spirit about the new spot. It certainly is smaller and aesthetically. It needs
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