Have a Look at the extracts of Author Kim Vermaak’s Medieval Fantasy Books
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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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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Whenever I think of this statement, I think of the movie Inkheart, which is a 2008 fantasy adventure film based on the novel by Cornelia Funke. It is one of my favorite fantasy adventure movies for the family to watch. The words that the principal character uses affects characters of stories and someone from the
Has anyone ever told you that words have power? Read More »
Do you ever have those days when you just don’t FEEL like doing things? You know you should, but somehow even the smallest task that you know you HAVE to do seems too big to get done. I had one of those kinds of weeks. Most of the things I know I should do seemed
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