by SMThornton | Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
This weekend I watched The Time Traveler’s Wife. I bawled. A lot. This, after I’d already read the book. For the love of Pete, I knew what was going to happen! I remember the first movie I ever cried in. I must have been about six and my family rented The...
by SMThornton | Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Okay, I’ve missed several of the last blogfests, but I couldn’t resist the Whoops! Blogfest, sponsored by the fabulous Laurel over at Laurel’s Leaves. We all have those whoops moments- the ones we wish we could erase from our memories. Permanently....
by SMThornton | Feb 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
I wanted to post a picture of New Kids on the Block, but thought that would date me. Yeah, I used to have high top sneaker-slippers with the band emblazoned on the side. And they were neon pink and green. I might have been a nerd. But you already knew that!So, back to...
by SMThornton | Feb 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I was perusing Pauline Gedge’s Egyptian novels at Amazon when I discovered something totally cool. You see, Gedge has authored the only traditionally published, adult novel on Hatshepsut (there’s a couple children’s books out there). Child...
by SMThornton | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Seqenenre Tao II (I do not make these names up, I swear) was the almost-founder of ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom. I don’t want to bore you all with a run-down of Egypt’s eras (we’ll save that for another post), but essentially Tao wanted to take...
