Time Off

Time Off

Time off, for most working adults, means anything from a fifteen minute coffee break to a lay off of a year or more. Neither is very satisfactory. The coffee break is too short, and the lay off is painfully long because the laid off worker rarely gets paid. This week...
Bordles ~ Being Homeless in the Middle Ages

Bordles ~ Being Homeless in the Middle Ages

  This quote from Piers Plowman B Version describes and ageless and universal problem. “Ich haue . . . nought so much worship. As tho that set at syde table . . . But sitte as a begger bordelees bi myself on the grounde.” A rougt translation into modern English...
Featured Author ~ Caroline Warfield

Featured Author ~ Caroline Warfield

Please welcome my good friend, author Caroline Warfield. Caroline is here today to tell us about herself and what I believe is one of the best holiday stories eve written, Christmas Hope.. Here’s Caroline. As writers we bring who we are and what we have to the...
Oktoberfest, in My Family

Oktoberfest, in My Family

Oktoberfest originated in Munich Germany as a celebration of a royal marriage. The purpose for the festival has changed and traditions have grown, but the Oktoberfest retains its Bavarian roots. Nonetheless, residents of the United States of America and other nations...
Breke Cheste

Breke Cheste

“Unkynde neighbores, bakbiteres, breke-cheste, brawlers and chiderers.” Piers Plowman B gives us a long list of mischief makers of various types. I find the term ‘breke-cheste’ interesting for it’s metaphorical implications. This propbable translation demonstrates....
Featured Author ~ Maggie Blackbird

Featured Author ~ Maggie Blackbird

Why do I write romance starring Canada’s Indigenous People?  One, I’m Ojibway and grew up on the reserve.  Two, having worked for an aboriginal organization for over fifteen years that took me all over the Treaty Area, which allowed me to engage with twenty-four First...

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