Book Launch for "Days Go By, Not Love"

"Best-selling author and clairvoyant Therese Benedict has the ultimate gift of love through communicating with God and his amazing angels. It has given her the enchanting life of love and happiness, and now she is giving it to you.

"Therese communicates with God and his angels throughout every moment of her life.In fact, the guidance she followed from heaven changed everything for her. And now it can change everything for you!

"From listening to every step of their guidance, Therese went from being a single mother to marrying the man of her dreams. From quitting her job in law and moving to a new state to finding her dreams. From surviving and healing from melanoma cancer to being presented the Congressman’s Medal of Merit for her countless acts. All because she was willing and honored to follow that guidance and do exactly what was being asked of her and who she is as person.

"And now, Therese is sharing this heavenly guidance with you in her best-selling book Days Go By, Not Love ~ A Beautiful Journey of Change (Book I). You can have that same chance in trusting in God and his angels to bring you to your dreams!

"In her book, you will find the answers to bettering your life with insight into the steps that are needed in making your life complete. Therese helps you understand why your life is where you are and not where you want it to be. And, no matter where you are in life, you will feel hope and heal from your pain. This book will not only give you guidance in one direction of life but will give you the answers in many directions of your life, so you may find the happiness that you have been dreaming of.

"Days Go By, Not Love was written to help all those who wish to change their life and to help bring this world together instead of apart. Every bit of Therese’s guidance and the action that you take TODAY can truly help change your life.

"No matter what you are going through can change … when you change."

Spend a Week at the Sea of Galilee with the Grandmother of Herbal Medicine

I'm inviting you spend a week reading a wonderful book by Juliette de Bairacli Levy, the Grandmother of Herbal Medicine - Summer in Galilee. You'll find her and her two toddlers irresistible as they explore the Sea of Galilee (in the modern State of Israel) together. Timely, filled with historical tales and emotional adventures, Summer in Galilee is a classic that is passed from hand to hand, generation to generation.

Summer in GALILEE

The author chronicles her visit to a Bedouin village and the trouble this causes both in the kibbutz where she lives and among the Bedouins. But with keen wit, steely nerve and kind heart, she manages to please everyone, including her readers, as she saves the day and mends frayed tempers. Join Juliette as she spends an eventful summer swimming in the waters, and the history, of the Sea of Galilee. She trains her observant eyes and lovely descriptive prose on the people, places, plants and animals around her. You will hold your breath as Juliette dares to traverse the forbidden militarized zone around the Jordan River in pursuit of a personal communion with this holiest of lands.

You’ll thrill as she and her children discover ancient treasure, be fascinated as she visits the tombs of Jewish mystics and, perhaps, scream in terror as she is visited in the dark of night by an enormous snake – only to breathe a sigh of relief when she is saved by her faithful Afghan hound.

Tim Horton Scored Twice

Any self respecting writer loves a good cup of coffee, and Canadian writers have a special fondness for one particular brand.

Tim Hortons is the most successful franchise in Canada. While you won't see one on every corner--yet--the popular coffee shops aren't hard to find. The phrase "double-double"--meaning "double cream, double sugar"--became so widespread because of Tim Hortons that the term was added to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition.

The man behind the name was Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton (1930-1974), a native of Cochrane, Ontario. The Hockey Hall of Fame inductee spent 24 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Tim Hortons franchise began with one shop that Horton himself opened in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1964. Today, there are more than 2,350 locations across Canada and a growing presence in the United States. Ron Joyce, Horton's partner and successor, established the Tim Horton Children's Foundation in 1975 to pay tribute to his late friend.

Although Tim Horton's life was cut short, his name lives on through his hockey legacy and his coffee franchise--a real double-double.

Spring Cleaning

The Victoria Day long weekend is a perfect opportunity to commit to a little spring cleaning, both in your home and in your life. In the "spirit of the season," I'm dusting off (sorry for the pun) an old favourite from my days at BellaOnline: Canadian Culture.


Book Review/Interview
Unclutter Your Life by Katherine Gibson

Katherine Gibson knows a thing or two about pushing clutter out of her life. In fact, the British Columbina author wrote the book on clutter busting--and not just in the physical sense. From the cover image of crisp white linens to the inner pages with plenty of white space, Unclutter Your Life: Transforming Your Physical, Mental and Emotional Space is a testament to the values it promotes. And Gibson keeps the contents orderly and concise. The book is broken down into three main sections: Physical Clutter, Mental Clutter, and Emotional Clutter. The last two sections are where she really sets herself apart from others in this field.

"A lot of the books out today are dealing with organizing our possessions," Gibson says. She wanted to go a step or two farther and explore the ways in which our inner lives are cluttered, too.

The mental and emotional clutter in a person's life can be just as detrimental as the more obvious physical signs. This book explores all three aspects equally. If you often find yourself running late, battling insomnia, or moving one thing to get to another, there's something here for you.

While based in part on research and interviews, Unclutter Your Life is no mere theoretical exercise. The book is linked to the lives of Gibson and her family, who practice the lessons taught within its pages. One of their most noteworthy changes was the removal of the household television.

"I did find that the book led me in some interesting directions," she says. "I realized how much our lives had changed because TV was no long part of our lives."

Gibson offers this added piece of advice to anyone who wants to achieve a less cluttered existence. "Visualize the life they want to have. From that moment forward, every action they take should move in that direction," adding, "You have to really, really want to do it."

Unclutter Your Life is the sort of book every person should have...and not just collecting dust on a shelf (or tying up space on your Kindle).

Blogger, Blogger...Who's Got the Blogger?

Are we all feeling better now that Blogger is (almost) back to normal?

Admittedly, the world didn’t stop spinning, but more than a few of my online associates were bemoaning the site’s prolonged “read only” status.

Blogger went down for maintenance yesterday afternoon. They stayed down for about 20 hours and ate a few recent blog posts in the process (including one of mine, which returned briefly then vanished again, taking a second one with it in the process).

In their most recent status updates, Blogger says the posts had to be temporarily removed in order for the site to be fixed and that they're now working to restore those posts. From what I've been able to pick up from online chatter, some bloggers are finding their posts restored in draft form, but some of those posts are incomplete.

I'm still waiting for my last two posts -- on The Golden Rage and The Roving Genealogist -- to return. Both can be recreated with relative ease, but it's still annoying to think that my interview with the writers of the new Moon Girl limited series will have to be formatted again.

All in all, a bad day for Blogger. We'll keep our fingers crossed that the problem is fully resolved and that the site will now run smoothly for the foreseeable future.

Back to Blogging x 4

It's been over a year since I posted anything on this blog, so why have I created three more?

I have a few key interests that I've wanted to blog about for some time, including genealogy, comics books (particulary from the Golden Age) and poetry. There are others, of course, but in terms of blogging, I figured I should start at the top.

Rather than shoehorn them into this blog -- where only poetry really fits but comics have crept in from time to time -- I decided to branch out with specialized blogs:

• The Poetry Bug
• The Roving Genealogist
• The Golden Rage

All three are up and running, so please check them out if you're interested in the topics. I welcome comments and contributions on all four blogs. Want to be interviewed or contribute a guest blog? Drop me a line with a quick pitch about how you'd fit into one of the topics.

Finally, please spread the word to your online friends. A blog is only as good as its readers, after all. Without you, I might as well stick to writing in my journal. ;-)

Harrington has Six Questions for Editors

On March 10th, I was the featured editor on Jim Harrington's Six Questions For . . . blog, with the focus on my role as Poetry Editor for Apollo's Lyre. Stop by and leave a comment, won't you?

And, just for fun, Jim has also asked me to answer his six questions as they relate to InkSpotter Publishing. So stay tuned for that!


Next month's interviews are listed here for your convenience:

4/02—Six Questions for Lauren Becker, Managing Editor, Corium Magazine

4/05—Six Questions for CL Bledsoe, Editor, Ghoti

4/07—Six Questions for David Shapiro, Editor, flashquake

4/09—Six Questions for Col Bury & Matt Hilton, co-editors, Thrillers, Killers 'N' Chillers

4/12—Six Questions for Rusty Barnes, Editor, Night Train

4/14—Six Questions for Mark Stratton, Editor-in-Chief, Cats with Thumbs

4/16—Six Questions for Lynn Alexander, Editor of Full of Crow, Fashion For Collapse, and Blink Ink Online.

4/19—Six Questions for Frances Badgett, Fiction Editor, Contrary Magazine

4/21—Six Questions for Ty Drago, Editor, Allegory

4/23—Six Questions for David LaBounty, Editor, The First Line

4/26—Six Questions for Andrew Bowen, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Divine Dirt Quarterly

4/28—Six Questions for Yvette Managan, Fiction Editor, Divine Dirt Quarterly

4/30—Six Questions for Colin Meldrum, Editor, A cappella Zoo


If you’re an editor and would like to participate, or know of an editor who might be interested, please contact Jim at sixquestionsfor@gmail.com.