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Music Monday – Inspiration for Loving Among the Dead

As most authors do, I have a playlist of songs I work with when I’m writing. It’s the playlist I think embodies the story, the characters and the mood of a certain scene.  I have all that set out before me, at my fingertips so I can access it at the press of a button. However, there are those songs that occurs to you after the story’s done, edited and published.  That song which pops up out of almost nowhere and declares itself an official sponsor of your story. It continues to amaze me how much music can not only soothe the savage beast but also bare one’s soul. Judith Graham holds her own in her zombie-proofed fortress that was once her childhood home.  Through the foresight of her survivalist parents, she’s set for at least a year, but overwhelming loneliness and crushing boredom drives her out into the deserted, yet… Continued

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About Friday the 13th

Things I learned about Friday the 13th. Yes.  Today is the fourteenth, I well realize that.  However, hindsight is 20/20 and here are seven things about the lucky or unlucky date.   1.  A Friday the 13th occurs at least once each year. 2.  Fear of the number 13 is known as triskaidekaphobia, while fear of Friday the 13th is known as paraskavedekatriaphobia. 3.  President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a victim of  triskaidekaphobia: According to The Huffington Post, he refused to travel on the 13th day of any month and would not host a dinner party with 13 guests. 4.  According to Time Magazine,  the stock market mini-crash of Friday, Oct. 13, 1989 was the second largest drop of the Dow history. 5. In the 1950s, the Columbiana, a group of Italian Columbus experts, concluded upon careful study of his ships’ logs and notes, that Columbus actually landed on the Western

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What's your Favorite Bond Theme? Free For All Fridays

I was going over my Google Playlists and I found one that I created a long time ago  with the James Bond themes.  Back in the day, I would never miss Bond movies on the television.  Being a woman of a certain age, my favorite Bond was Sean Connery, next George Lazenby (even though he only appeared in one Bond film) and I tolerated Roger Moore.  By the time the franchise worked its way around to Timothy Dalton (yuk!) and Pierce Brosnan, I had lost interest.  Thought my interest was somewhat  revived with the new Bond, Daniel Craig, my heart still belonged to Sean. Never mind the movies, though, what about the songs?  The iconic songs that told you that a cool movie was about to start?  Many of these songs were sung by the hot artists at the time and were almost always chart worthy. For this blog post,

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Loving Blog Hop – Historic Interracial Couples

Although the Loving case was a historic civil rights decision as it struck down laws banning interracial marriage, there have been many, varied interracial marriages throughout history.     Joseph Laroche, 26, a Haitian-born, French-educated engineer who was moving back to Haiti because he could not find work in his profession in France because of racial prejudice.  The family was meant to travel via first-class on the French ocean liner France.  According to the Chicago Tribune, the Laroches discovered that the ship wouldn’t allow them to dine with their children.  They traded their first class tickets for second class tickets about the Titanic.   Due to the protocol of  “women and children first”  Mr. Laroche separated from his family and went down with the ship.       Pearl Bailey,  a Black American actress and singer known for vaudeville and for the title role in the all-Black production of “Hello, Dolly!”

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Loving Day Blog Hop – Historic Interracial Couples

Although the Loving case was a historic civil rights decision as it struck down laws banning interracial marriage, there have been many, varied interracial marriages throughout history.     Joseph Laroche, 26, a Haitian-born, French-educated engineer who was moving back to Haiti because he could not find work in his profession in France because of racial prejudice.  The family was meant to travel via first-class on the French ocean liner France.  According to the Chicago Tribune, the Laroches discovered that the ship wouldn’t allow them to dine with their children.  They traded their first class tickets for second class tickets about the Titanic.   Due to the protocol of  “women and children first”  Mr. Laroche separated from his family and went down with the ship.       Pearl Bailey,  a Black American actress and singer known for vaudeville and for the title role in the all-Black production of “Hello, Dolly!”

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Beauty is Where You Find It

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s a beautiful Tuesday here in New Jersey. The grass is growing and the birds are chirping. It’s a great day to sit outside on the porch, on the grass, or on your deck and simply enjoy this early June sunshiney weather. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran So I don’t really have too much to say today except that we should find beauty in the small things. We should find beauty and everyday occurrences. There is beauty in every aspect of our lives. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

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