Welcome to the first of several A-Z blogs which will serve as shameless promotions for Just Like Gravity, my paranormal romance due out in March/April. You have been warned!! The protagonist, Anna, is a fortuneteller. She’s skeptical, though, and doesn’t really believe in divination though her mother taught her all the ways to do it. Then the bad dreams start—dreams so intense they leave her shaken and terrified of what is to come. She uses tarot cards to tell her […]
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I’m writing on spring equinox, March 20. On the equinox, the earth and sun stand straight up in relation to each other. We are neither tilted away nor toward the sun; we are balanced. We have two of these; one in the spring and one in the fall and they are magical days indeed. The vernal equinox is really the mid-point of spring which started on February 2—also an old pagan celebration day halfway between the solstice and the equinox. […]
▶ Rhett Butler – Scarlett O’Hara: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn… – YouTube. Today’s word is Damn—as in “Damn, I can’t find a magic word starting with D.” Then again, damn is a common curse word. It comes from a Latin word which means “to inflict loss on or to judge or to doom” and we still use it that way. In America, the word was not commonly—if ever—used in print or film until Margaret Mitchell wrote […]
Looking for magic words eventually led me to the dark side—curses. What if some jealous jinn or a wandering malevolent spirit saw fit to send snaking coils of evil magic my way? It seemed only prudent to be ready to zap enemies into green goo if necessary. Even Pagans don’t encourage curses though it is often argued some people invite curses. The logic is that a curse has to be pretty strong to go against Karma so if a curse […]
Extended Clip: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo | Disney Video. In my quest for the perfect, all-powerful magic word, I turned to that font of demonic words and symbology, Disney. In the animated Cinderella (1950) I struck pay dirt with the song “Bibbetty Bobbety Boo.” The song is sung by the fairy godmother so how could it be bad? Well, let me tell you. Strangely, the phrase has a history prior to Disney’s Cinderella. Ivan Turgenev was a Russion writer of short stories, novels, […]
Steve miller Band – Abracadabra – YouTube. As a freckle-faced, barefoot youngling, I searched high and low for a magic word to free me from my mundane existence—to transport me worlds away from my rocky farm in southern Missouri. I stood on a little hill near my house at dusk, arms extended. I spoke, I whispered, I shouted at the moon–word after word with the fervent faith of a ten year old. My parents must have been concerned. Later, as […]