These marvelous vintage recipes are from a public domain cookbook from 1905 entitled Sloan’s Cookbook and Advice to Housekeepers. Notice how these old recipes assume that the cook pretty much knows what she is doing. The recipes are not given in the step by step format we are accustomed to today. The variant spelling of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Old Time Candy 1905
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Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Featured Book: Dream Casters: Light by Adrienne Woods Mr. Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da…..Seventeen year old Chasity Blake knows the Sandman is just a silly children’s story parents tell their children to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until the day a mysterious,… Continue reading Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Presents Mae Clair
Today I’m excited to present my cyber friend, author Mae Clair, and her new book Food for Poe. I have enjoyed all of Mae’s books and am reading her new one–and loving it. My fur fae Marigold agrees, and you will too! —————————————————— Cats, Christmas, and Romance by Mae Clair It’s hard to believe that… Continue reading Author on Board: Flossie Benton Rogers Presents Mae Clair
Tuesday Tales: Writing Barn
“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.” Robert Frost Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today we write from a photograph featuring a barn. The snippet is from a vintage… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Barn
Mythic Monday: St. Andrew’s Night Re-Blog
When I read this post from Romanian author Carmen Stefanescu on her website, I found it incredibly fascinating. I’ve heard Carmen speak of St. Andrew’s Night before, and in this segment of her Mysterious Romania series she includes a lot of the details of the holiday. The folk customs reach way back into the dim recesses… Continue reading Mythic Monday: St. Andrew’s Night Re-Blog
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Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Serving the Serpent by Daisy Banks Blurb: In Wales, Ceridwyn takes up her inherited duty to care for the dragons in the mountains. Awed by them and the huge book about them, she is determined to prove her worth. Far away in Norway, Leif has growing concerns for his sick dragon. He discovers only one… Continue reading Paranormal Romance Thursday Tour
Tuesday Tales: When You Dislike the Word
“Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me.” Walt Whitman Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today our word prompt is nasty, an unappetizing word if you ask me. My six year old Snickerdoodle used it recently in… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: When You Dislike the Word
Mythic Monday: Scorpio Goddess Hecate
“He then the name invokes Of Hecate; abundant honour straight Shall follow on his path, if to that prayer Gracious the goddess leans and opulence Attends his footsteps; for the power is hers.” Hesiod, translated by Sir Charles Abraham Elton, from Theogony “It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Scorpio Goddess Hecate
Vintage Friday: Pumpkin Cookies 1959
In the frenzy of everyday life, do you enjoy making time for special holiday activities? Maybe crocheting handmade gifts or baking batches of delicious, aromatic cookies for the whole family to appreciate? I do. I find it’s the perfect time to deviate from the usual busy bustle and partake of pursuits that feed our souls… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Pumpkin Cookies 1959