The fictitious setting of a very REAL life.
Hellllllloooooooo ALL!!! Whew, what a glorious whirlwind the past few months have been!!! I couldn’t think of a better day to recap the Spring than the first day of SUMMER! Let’s see, I guessing by now that work and workouts are obvious…as both have… Continue Reading “spring in my step”
Hello All! Here we are, at the end of our first three books in our To Be Read pile for 2021. What I love about Renae and I is that the only thing we are focused on with the maiden voyage of this book… Continue Reading “Three Sisters Island Trilogy”
Hello Dear Readers, Please forgive the couple of weeks I’ve missed in my postings BUT I am back! What have I been up to??? Well, if you sensed a Lady Whistledown flair to my intro (and you know who that is) then you will… Continue Reading “new year, new things”
It’s 4:52pm on December 31st 2020 and I just started a pot, yes I said it, a pot of coffee. I had my freshly re-written notes in preparation to start another, hopefully, dazzling piece of blogdom BUT they are now in the garbage. See,… Continue Reading “Bring me that horizon”
Happy Wednesday ya’ll!! As it turns out, my consistency here will start with the once a week mindfulness post I mentioned last week. Straight off the heels of cultivating MORE mindfulness in my life, today, I am going to talk about how I… Continue Reading “Environment”
When I started this challenge, I had NO idea (because I didn’t read ahead), that two of my favorite tracks would be back to back and I am thrilled to be taking on this one today! Hobbits are my very, very, very favorite race… Continue Reading “Concerning Hobbits”
This is easily one of my favorite songs in all of Middle Earth. Not only am I am MASSIVE Ed Sheeran fan, He is a MASSIVE Tolkien fan…which in my opinion is very evident in I See Fire…a song he wrote, if I am remembering… Continue Reading “I See Fire”
It, perhaps, shouldn’t be surprising as I complete the posts that I am, in fact, a HUGE Tolkien fan…please notice that I said fan and not scholar. I was introduced to Tolkien via the movies and while I have gone on to read a… Continue Reading “Song of the Lonely Mountain”
Imagine being asleep after an already weary journey only to be woken by the sound of the earth cracking and a horde of goblins coming down on you. As brave as I’d like to dream to be, I’d have likely passed out then and… Continue Reading “Down in Goblin Town”
Hearing the dwarves sing Misty Mountains in the movie, gave me chills. I think the arrangement really set the tone simultaneously for what they lost and what they were about to dare achieve. The imagery in this song is amazing! As good as the… Continue Reading “Misty Mountains”