ByCatherine Green
What is my fascination with the paranormal world? Why do I write paranormal novels? Let’s explore the human fascination with the in-human world beyond our reality. I have always been fascinated with the world of the supernatural and paranormal. As a child I loved reading ghost stories and watching TV documentaries. Strange But True was…
ByCatherine Green
Autumn has sprung, and I feel so much better than I did a few weeks ago. The air is growing cool and crisp, there is a hint of frost in the mornings, and of course, we welcome the season of spooky shenanigans! Here are 5 reasons why I’m an autumn person. 1, Redheads melt in…
ByMichelle Adam
The Soul knows the Way. She always does. So Stop and Listen. Today is 20 years after 9/11. It’s 20 years since the United States was paralyzed, even if for just a few moments, by terrorists that took down our greatest symbol or “reaching for the stars”. Terrorists terrorized and stopped us in our tracks…
ByCatherine Green
Have you returned to the high street since lockdown restrictions eased? Do you enjoy browsing in shops for new clothes, shoes and accessories, or do you simply order everything online these days? I used to enjoy shopping days as a social event, but that would include wandering around the shops with friends, catching up on…
ByCatherine Green
Since I started actively promoting my novels in my local area, I found an increased number of people asking me how I managed to get published. For me it seems quite strange in this world of eBooks and DIY publishing. I have taken for granted the fact that for many people, being a published author…
ByCatherine Green
During the past five years or so, our government has tried to launch various incentives to persuade people back into the workplace and off the benefits system. More specifically this is aimed at women, and I say this based on personal experience. In my social circles it is largely the men that work full time…
ByClare Watkinson
I’ve always loved the word ‘crinkle’. It has such happy, playful edges; an exuberant breed of wrinkle, nestling in furrows of amiability. Far more excitable than a fold, but so much kinder than a pinch! It’s the pleated corner of a smiling eye or the puckered crumple of seersucker. And unlike the meekly silent ‘wrinkle’,…
ByCatherine Green
How I launched my Reiki therapy business while simultaneously managing life as a single parent with a chronic pain condition. Incorporating I had a bad couple of weeks with eye pain caused by ingrowing eyelashes recently. It resulted in an emergency appointment at the local eye hospital and a week of antibiotic eyedrops to soothe…
ByGiora Carmi
The stage workers bring a heavy black chair onto the stage. The chair has stout heavy legs. The workers place it facing sideways. Then they leave the stage. A man now comes to the stage and he is dressed in black. He turns to the audience and bows. You can feel that he is preoccupied…
ByCatherine Green
We Are the World BlogFest (#WATWB) celebrates special people and small stories of inspiration and hope in the world. Let’s face it, we need some inspiration and hope during this time of pandemic and social distancing. I admit this month I am struggling to find a good news story I want to share with the…
ByMichelle Adam
“I have a dream” are the most memorable words associated with Martin Luther King Jr., the man celebrated for having had the courage to act on his dreams, no matter how unfathomable at the time. Back then, in the 1960s, he was denounced as an extremist, as so many of us are when our dreams…
ByCatherine Green
Hello, my witchy friends, how are you? I am very happy to say good riddance, Mercury Retrograde! Now, I’m not well educated on planetary alignments, astronomy and astrology, but I dip in and out here and there. I hadn’t heard about Mercury Retrograde until a few years ago, when it came up in discussions on…