by SMThornton | Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today’s questions deal with writing and blogging. Jenna Wallace (AKA Dreamstate) is dying to know, “You follow a zillion blogs. How do you have the time to get through them all and still post, teach, write and have a family? And have you always lived in...
by SMThornton | Jan 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
This week I’m answering questions from everyone. Yahoo!Terresa asked, “If you could personally interview any author, alive or dead, who would it be and why?”Okay, so first I was going to try to cheat and interview Hatshepsut or Theodore Roosevelt....
by SMThornton | Jan 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yay! Yesterday I reached 100 followers!*breaks out in an Egyptian happy dance*I’m pretty darn thrilled there’s 100 people interested in my ramblings on ancient Egypt and writing. I had a post planned for today, but I’m going to save it for later...
by SMThornton | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
So I have a new blog boiler plate- one of the pictures from my trip to Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri back in 2005. The temple’s name in ancient Egyptian was Djeser Djereru and translates to the Holiest of Holies. It’s located just...
by SMThornton | Jan 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
I know you’ve all been waiting for this- the final round of student analogies and metaphors!And the crowd goes wild!1. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 2. He was lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck,...
