About the Author Peter Riva has spent many months over 30 years travelling throughout Africa and Europe. Much of this time was spent with the legendary guides for East African hunters and adventurers. He created a TV series in 1995 called Wild Things for Paramount. Passing on the fables, true tales, and insider knowledge of… Read More Book Review: ‘The Berlin Package’, by Peter Riva {and Giveaway!}
The long an often arduous Canadian winters make moisturizers for every part of one’s skin an essential part of one’s personal hygiene regimen. I’m sure a couple of tons of the stuff is slathered on every winter in a desperate attempt to avoid the discomfort of tightening dry skin. Which makes it all the more… Read More Product Review: Burt’s Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Cream
Do you remember your organic chemistry? Do you remember those little H-bonds, who were not in themselves strong enough to hold a molecular structure together, but were strong enough to change properties of, say, water? The ones that make a molecule wrap itself differently, and/or make it a little stronger? I have always had an… Read More Pleasantries: the Hydrogen Bond of Community Building?
Let’s face it: mistakes earn a bad reputation pretty early on. When we make mistakes on a test at school, it gets marked in bold red, is sometimes mentioned by the teacher as a bad thing we should not have done, and something our parents tell us not to repeat next time. This relationship with… Read More The Fear of Making Mistakes: There is not Such a Thing as Failure
Long Island, New York, brothers Matt and Andrew Como’s newest offering, the six-track EP Imagination, is for the most part, bright, airy, and cheerful, modernizing old sounds with pop-inspired flair. The music is both stripped down, yet full, what with Matt’s bass lines, Andrew’s guitar, Steve Jordan’s supporting drums, and Andy Burton’s keyboard work filling… Read More Music Review: The Como Brothers – ‘Imagination’ EP
New York City based singer-songwriter Mark Kraus has experimented with different ideas, bands, and projects for quite some time now. Coming after a five year break, his album The Story of Everything, to be released in August, can be taken as a sort of reawakening. Perhaps it was more painful than he had anticipated. For… Read More Music Review: Mark Kraus – ‘The Story of Everything’
Tampa Bay (Florida) hard rock band Winter Calling released its first record last March, As Darkness Falls, which is described as an effort to take listeners on a highly melodic and cinematic auditory journey. True to promise, most of their tracks start slow with a heavy hint of threat that spills over with a crescendo… Read More Music Review: Winter Calling – ‘As Darkness Falls’
As discussed last week, a pregnancy is a very intimate affair and yet has a certain community-oriented side which I have been very lucky to experience both as a non-pregnant and pregnant community member. There are still, however, many boundaries that need to be respected. Learning how to identify and respect these boundaries is further… Read More Three Things I Wish People Would Stop Doing and Saying to Pregnant Parents {and what they could do instead}
I am lucky to count author Sieni not only as a friend, but also as one of those with whom I have had many a fantastic chat on the role writing fiction can have on personal and community development, which resulted in many an undone chore. What can I say – sacrifices must be made.… Read More Author Spotlight: Sieni A.M.
About the Author Barbara Casey is the author of several award-winning novels for both adults and young adults, and numerous articles, poems, and short stories. In addition to her own writing, she is an editorial consultant and president of the Barbara Casey Agency, established in 1995, representing authors throughout the United States, Great Britain, Canada,… Read More Book Review: ‘The Cadence of Gypsies’, by Barbara Casey {and Giveaway!}
