What a different scene is thus conjured up, from the calm, bright summer sunshine of the lovely afternoon. But whatever the moods of weather – though tempests rage and torrents of rain lash the streaming glass; though the storm-tossed billows strike the house with thunderous sound, and dash...
romance, and crime. Set in the roaring ’20s, June’s Journey is a hidden objects game wherein you’re presented with a scene and are tasked to find objects corresponding to a set of words. The mechanics of the game seem simple enough at the onset, but there’s...
This time my partner was Diane of A Focused Journey, Midteacher on swap-bot. Diane and I communicate regularly through swaps and “random acts of mail,” but I learned a lot more about her life and her creative work. Diane’s chosen topics were beauty, color, alone, and fragrant. Take...
The scene at the Feria (open air market) in the park described in the book is based on the actual Saturday morning Feria in the park across the street from the apartment we rented when we lived in Montevideo. Andrea’s research with algal toxins she describes at dinner in the book is p...
times, communicating by letter too in between. Jackie’s birth was a secret that her natural mother was not ready to share with her family. Her journey in understanding her natural parents took to Nairn in the Scottish Highlands, Aberdeen and Milton Keynes, and then naturally in time to ...
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One day they went on a train journey together. “We’ll need some food,” Pearl said. “We’ll buy some bananas,” June said. “They are good to eat and always clean.” And so they bought two bananas to eat on the train. It was not long before they were hungry. Pearl took out...
Mattie runs away with her baby; and it’s great that she makes it to Oberlin and is reunited with her husband and son, but the journey isn’t very realistic. Marks for trying to show the work of the Underground Railroad, but it’s “trying” rather than “succeeding”! Lisbeth becomes...
Even then, I rely heavily on research about the real world, whether it’s a particular PLACE (East Africa in the case of my African animal trilogy, STAY CLOSE TO MAMA, JUST LIKE MY PAPA, and MY BIBI ALWAYS REMEMBERS) or a particular TIME (1929 in LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTMAS; 1870 in THE ...
Well, why not?) Journey to the Land of Dreams (it all makes sense now, huh?) and search for the Book of Living Magic. As you travel, don't forget to click on everything — literally, everything you see on screen — because 99% of the things you click on have unique descriptions...