The Royal Canadian Mounted Police very nearly didn’t exist. They began life in the 19th century as the North West Mounted Police, but in 1896, the new Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, decided that the NWMP should be disbanded. However, over in the west, the NWMP were becoming incredibly useful containing the excesses of the […]
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So, Thorin Oakenshield is growing on me. This year, of course, the third installment of The Hobbit came out, and I haven’t seen it yet, although I know it’s not a happy ending for everyone. I did get the extended version of The Desolation of Smaug – the second installment – as a belated Christmas
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The very first primetime Emmy Awards took place on this day in 1949. It was held in Los Angeles, and only Los Angeles produced TV shows were admitted for nomination. The best TV show for 1949 was a games show called Pantomime Quiz. There were no sub-categories. Interestingly, every show nominated was aired by the
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My take on sex and romance stories. If you’ve read any of my books at all, you’ve either noticed that the sex is way off the charts, or you’ve noticed that the sex is so mild it doesn’t register on the Richter Scale. I would like to talk about that. What prompted this post was
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I play around with Tarot cards and have ever since Mark introduced me to them. They’re interesting – I’ve written about the Tarot before, and I also featured them in The Branded Rose Prophecy. Frank Herbert, the author of the amazing Dune series, also featured tarot cards. His futuristic version was called the Dune Tarot,
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It’s January, that classic month of deprivation and do-over, when we all try to recover from a month of horrid over-indulgence and excess. Given that, it’s probably no surprise that all my reading this month is health focused. An Easy Guide to Meditation Amazon Link Surprise! It’s not a diet book. J This year I’m
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Meet Osborne, the portable computer of 1983. It weighed nearly 24 lbs and had a whopping 124K of RAM (today’s laptops average 8 Gb of operating memory, which is over 64,000 times more than Osborne). I am going to date myself badly here, but one of my first jobs out of high school was using
It’s been a very interesting month! Tarotlore http://www.tarotlore.com/tarot-reading/ If you don’t have your own pack with you, head over to Tarotlore to lay a quick spread – and the cards are clickable so you get instant translations, too. Absorbing playtime…. . ________ Watch Every On-Screen Death in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, in under
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Harvest of Holidays, book 2.1 in The Stonebrood Saga, featuring a return of Carson and Tally from Carson’s Night, is now available. Also featuring gargoyles, vampires and demon hunters, this is a tightly packed little story. Here’s the blurb for Harvest of Holidays: Carson Connor’s final story. Six years have passed since Natalia Grey destroyed the
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