Like many Christian holidays, Easter supplants a pagan holiday. The pagan holiday being thrust down here is the celebration of Spring, once called “Eostre”. Along with Spring, the pagans used to celebrate fertility and new life. Nothing wrong with any of that, right? It is interesting that they were celebrating new life while those of …
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The What If Game
The “What If…” game has been around a long time. For writers, it’s one of the most highly valuable tools for creating the next great novel or the next fantastic screenplay. For children, it’s a sure way to expand the imagination and explore the world as it might be rather than how it is. For …
Spring!
It IS Spring! We definitely had a shorter Winter’s end and swifter Spring beginning. Thank you Salty Stew! (That’s the name of our groundhog.) So Spring is here. Flowers are popping out of the dirt, the weather is warming, and people are venturing out of their hibernation hovels. Even yours truly was able to get …
Candy Critic (Holiday Edition)
Conversation Hearts (Sweethearts): The scandalous candies which carry messages such as, “R U 🙂 ?” Well, just hope the person you give these to has a sense of humor, or at least shares your sense of humor, or you might get some little candy hearts back with messages like, “U R Alone”. Hershey’s Kisses: Little …
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