Journal
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Friday: Words from Faerie
"If we do not raise our arms and will the mists to rise we will stumble forever in the fog." I first read The Mists of Avalon, written by Sci-fi Fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley, close to thirty years ago. It was a Christmas gift from my sister. No doubt she saw a...
Friday: Words from Faerie
The Quays is one of my favourite bars in the whole world. Naturally, it's in Ireland. If you ever find yourself wandering Shop Street in Galway, you must go in and explore. Excerpts from To Charm a Killer. WL Hawkin Stepping through the portal of THE QUAYS was like...
Waiting for Norse Mythology
Are you waiting to read Neil Gaiman's latest book: Norse Mythology? I am. As Gaiman wrestled with these stories, he says, he had no idea he was writing a topical book. But then, as political events unfolded in the second half of 2016, he could not help but draw...
Friday: Words from Faerie
Fridays seem to come faster and faster as the world shivers with a blink and a breath...and sometimes a bang. Faerie reveals that evil exists, but cannot triumph. Though shadows threaten and shroud, there is a way through...a glimmer of light; an ever-expanding force...
Imbolc: First Promise of Spring
Today, pagans celebrate Imbolc (pronounced EE-molc). It is the first of three spring festivals occurring every six weeks. Like most pagan holidays, it has been transformed into something else. Groundhog Day. Though, an echo of animals and a promise of spring remains,...
Hallucinations and Psychology: What Happens When You Read?
And now something light, but true. If this is what readers experience, imagine what happens to writers? I LIVE somewhere between two and five, in the all consuming life of the book. I'd like to see a video on what happens to the brain when we read and write. I've seen...
