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Music Monday – Inspiration for Loving Among the Dead

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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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Loving Blog Hop – Historic Interracial Couples

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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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Sad Songs Say So Much

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It’s Monday, right? I’m not the type to sing the Monday blues, because that’s just not my style. Every day when I can wake up and do what I love is a blessing to me. Now that my “positive thinking” public service announcement is out of the way, let’s move on to the meat of the matter. The blues. Everybody gets them at one time or another for all types of reasons, but today I’m going to focus on the love blues. “The blues are the roots, everything else is the fruits.” – Willie Dixon What is the blues? The blues have their origin in slave songs, field hollers and spirituals. For my purposes here, the blues is what you sing and/or feel when you are feeling sad. You lost a lover. You never had a lover. Your lover loves someone else. So you sing the blues. Somehow knowing that

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Tools for Writing – Beautiful Implements

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This is mostly going to be a picture post, but I wanted to share my love of handwriting with  y’all.  Yes, I am a techie gal…the one with five laptops in the basement in various states of disrepair because I’m just about to order that part to fix them.  I won’t dare tell you the gadgets that I have, excepting that I do not own a Kindle.  Everything else is fair game. While I do love my technology, a few of my favorite things include journals, pens and the like.  Take a look. Journals – I’ve got a pile of them.  When I say a pile, I mean it. I collect them, write in them and gaze at them. Here are a few “new” tools that I’ve had my eye on.         How about some pens to go with these lovely pages? Don’t look at the price….revel

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