The following is a guest post by author Marlene M. Bell, whose book, A Hush At Midnight, I reviewed here. I ended up becoming an independent author by accident. The best way to describe it is on a dare from my 4H club parents who asked for a non-fiction how-to book on raising sheep. If… Read More Guest Post: Thoughts On Being An Independent Author, by Marlene M. Bell
About the Author, Marlene M. Bell Marlene M. Bell is an accomplished artist and photographer who takes pride in entertaining fans on multiple levels with her creativity. Marlene’s award-winning Annalisse series boasts Best Mystery honors for all installments including these: IP Best Regional Australia/New Zealand, Global Award Best Mystery, and Chanticleer’s International Mystery and Mayhem… Read More Book Review: A Hush At Midnight, by Marlene M. Bell
Butterly is at it again! This time, the team sent me, last week, two Yves St-Laurent Loveshine High-Shine Caring Lipsticks and Urban Decay’s Face Bond Waterproof Foundation. It’s been a week, and I have been asked to post a review within a week of receiving the products, so I again am focusing on only the… Read More Product Review: Yves St-Laurent’s Loveshine Lipstick & Urban Decay’s Face Bond Foundation
Tl,DR: If you want to support my writing without buying my books, please use my affiliate links (listed here) to purchase books or products you would purchase from Amazon USA anyhow. As you know, I have written a few children’s books in the last few years. I’m incredibly grateful for the support I have received… Read More Announcement: Launching Amazon USA Affiliate Links for Recommended Books
There is no such thing as a dichotomy. We are noble, spiritual beings, and everything in our lives is meant to help us reach our full capacity. This is why we should challenge ourselves to understand how the various pieces of our life fit together as part of one seamless whole, rather than separate parts… Read More Carbs, Garbs and Barbs: Cooking and Community Building
Learning is essential for both personal development and the building of a community. But it’s easier said than done. When, for example, one has spent a lot of time and poured a lot of energy into one’s education, it can be quite a blow to hear that one might be wrong. Similarly, when one identifies… Read More What’s Love Got To Do With It? The Importance Love In Community-Building
I have mentioned before how insidious the negative forces of society can be, and how something that seemed forever innocuous can actually be quite dangerous. I realised today that there is something we as a society seem to accept wholly and fully that could just be a big part of the rape culture problem. Picture… Read More Rape Culture: Consent in Movies
One of the elements that I have come to understand as essential to one’s personal growth—mental, spiritual, and emotional—is the ability to sit quietly and just be. Of course nowadays, there is always something (or rather, a bunch of things!) that is clamouring for our attention, and so we are often left without a second… Read More Learning To ‘Be’ From The Cradle Up: On The Desire To Constantly Entertain My Baby
There is no such thing as a dichotomy. We are noble, spiritual beings, and everything in our lives is meant to help us reach our full capacity. This is why we should challenge ourselves to understand how the various pieces of our life fit together as part of one seamless whole, rather than separate parts… Read More Carbs, Garbs, and Barbs: Cooking and Community Building
It feels like whatever I do, I can never repay my parents for everything they have done for me. And since I got married, I feel like whatever my husband and I do, we can never repay our parents for everything they have done for us as individuals and as a couple. And—not to sound… Read More Honouring Our Parents By Parenting Our Children