Author: harmamae
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How to Cook for a Celiac: A Simple Guide
This post is slightly tangential – how to cook for celiacs – because I wanted a nice, easy explanation that lays down the basics about what you need to know to do this to be available online. Don’t worry, with your newfound knowledge of celiac disease, you can go and make your next main character…
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The Other Side of the Story
Why We Need Literature – To Tell Us Both Sides It’s easy to hate people. How on earth can they think the way they do? What on earth would motivate them to do that? People’s minds are a mystery to us, especially if they’re our enemies. Obviously we have a good reason for whatever things…
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Will Ebooks Kill the Printed Book?
A lot of hardcore readers were doubtful when the Kindle came out, but there’s no denying sales of ebooks have skyrocketed these past few years. More and more people own e-readers, and several authors are making more money self-publishing electronically than they could ever make with a traditional publisher. Does this spell death for the…
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The First Shall Be Last
Why we don’t actually know who was first, why being “first” isn’t so clear-cut, and why it’s best not to be first anyway. There was an annoying internet trend a few years back, where people would race to post comments like “First to post!” or “Yes! First” under every article, without any useful contribution to…
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Famous Now, Famous Always? Not Necessarily…
Fleeting Fame Just imagine – you’ve got it made. You’ve climbed to the pinnacle of your career in acting, writing, music, or whatever, and now everyone in the world knows your name. This is what you’ve been dreaming about since you were a kid. A household name. Yeah, that’s you. You bet a hundred years…
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A Proverb From the Parliament
Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) This quote happens to be inscribed on the Parliament Buildings of Canada, and it struck me the other day – it’s a pretty fitting quote for a government. A huge part of the apathy with politics is that people don’t believe politicians have…
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I Need to Read More Books
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you’ve probably started to see a pattern. I know I have, from writing it. The same books keep coming up over and over. If you were to take a guess at which books exactly were my favourite, what would you come up with? Say Lord of the…
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Those Pesky Phoenicians! – A Thought From Herodotus
According to the learned Persians, it was the Phoenicians who caused the conflict. – Herodotus, The Histories That is the beginning of Herodotus’ explanation for the war between the Greeks and the Persians (you know, the war that movie 300 was sort of, supposedly, set during). Pretty typical how the blame gets passed on to…
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The Missing Ingredient in Too Many Romance Novels
The Over-stated Role of Attraction There are a couple typical plots for romance novels, but most of them go something like this: Girl is frustrated at being single/sick of dating jerks/doesn’t have time for romance. Girl and Guy meet cute. Girl and Guy hate each other for some contrived reason (usually one of them…
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An Opening to Intrigue You
In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. – Howl’s Moving Castle (yes, again) I love this opening because it establishes so clearly that this novel is going to poke fun at fairy-tales. The…
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