Christmas lights zigzagged across the road and shoppers hurried for the warmth of department stores. An icy wind brought a chill to the falling snow.
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You Can Time Travel
As today is Time Traveller Day, I wanted to tell you that everyone can travel back in time. I’ve done it on many occasions and it is a great source of pleasure. Would you like to take part and celebrate this day by going back in time too? Instructions on How to Travel Back in…
National Day of the Horse
When I was eight years old, my mother let two sisters, a sixteen and eighteen year old take me to the other side of the city to a riding school. In 1966, the world was a different place. Each week I went with them to spend the day at the stables. I’d muck out horses,…
Halloween Ghost Story Free to Download
I’ve never believed in ghost or of psychic ability but as I’ve got older I’ve opened my mind a little. I now believe that for other people, it’s different. I believe, they believe, and perhaps something has happened to them to make it that way. As a writer, it’s a pot of gold. I love…
Author Post, Educational & Non-Fiction, Holidays & Observances, Norns Triad Publications, Women Writers
Happy Holidays To All!
I have learned in life that people enjoy getting their panties in a bunch, especially over stupid things. I have, also, come to understand that when someone says something like, ‘bless you’, they aren’t trying to convert you. Rather, they are expressing a meaningful gesture towards you. It doesn’t matter what you believe; to them,…
Mistakes
I’ve been writing all my life and it was my second hobby. The first was and is reading. My brother was an excellent artist so I wanted to draw but had no talent for it whatsoever. So I looked for something else to make ‘pretty pictures’. I found cross stitching and it has been one…
World Kindness Day
We should be kind all the time rather than have a week for being so. But it isn’t about that as much. It’s more going that extra mile and doing something that you haven’t done before. A couple of years ago my WI, (Women’s Institute) decided to put together bouquets of flowers and leave them…
Author Post, Gift Ideas For Readers, Holidays & Observances, Norns Triad Publications, Women Writers
A Week For National Awareness – MENTAL ILLNESS
National Mental Illness Awareness Week is celebrated the first full week in October. This year, that means October 4th through the 10th, which happens to be World Mental Health Day. There has always been a stigma with mental health. This stems, I believe, from fear… fear of the unknown. However, we know psychiatric disorders aren’t…
BE KIND – Stop Bullying!
I truly believe that we are not born with hatred; it is taught to us. Society teaches us the ‘rules’ of our cultures. Unfortunately, one of the biggest things taught – whether intentional or inadvertently – is bullying. Often, when we are angry, we lash out. We get frustrated and become REactive instead of PROactive.…
National Chess Day
My dad taught me how to play chess, he loved the game. I enjoy it but I am no strategist. Those skilled in the game are able to think of several moves ahead, I literally played off the cuff. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s, I loved Sidney Sheldon books. He was such a good…
