Mothers the world over, from age to age, have never been unaware of the costs of war. Whether it’s watching husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, march off to the battlefield, welcoming them home when they are unwhole and scarred, burying them [...]
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Momming Monday: Memorial Day
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, History, Making Things, Memorial Day, Momming Mondays, thank a vet, Wellness
Posted in History, Momming Mondays
Posted in History, Momming Mondays
International Woman’s Day
Alice Paul and the Suffragettes break it down on the 19th Amendment. Go check out Soomo Publishing‘s page for more so-awesome-it-hurts history. Also…check out today’s Google Doodle.
Worldbuilding Wednesday: The MacGuffin or You Gotta Want It
I have a MacGuffin. And you want it. You want it so bad, you’ll do anything to get it, including putting yourself in situations you wouldn’t normally find yourself. Doing things you wouldn’t normally do. So what is the MacGuffin? [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, History, MacGuffin, plotting, Scribbling, storytelling, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
Posted in History
Posted in History
Photos of the abandoned antique cars nature has reclaimed
Photos of the abandoned antique cars nature has reclaimed.
All Quiet On The Western Front
The World War I Christmas Truce
Friday. There Are No Words…But There Is A Blurb At The End
I wake up to this:
Daily Mail Article
Really…how am I supposed to top this? 9:30 in the morning and I’m officially done.
If we were back in 1922, today would be the day that one Howard Carter took a flight of steps [...]
Friday Free-For-All
I have this thing for alliteration, can you tell?
This Space Is Occupied
From the comfort of my rural exercise ball, I have been avidly watching livestream and youtube coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As a GenXer, I’m amazed that [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, Geekdom, History, making things, moms made of WIN, Science, science, values, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
Posted in History
Posted in History
Always Moving Forward
Even though my Friday posts are usually about history, this week, I’m talking about what to do after history happens.
You move forward.
You remember what happened, you try to puzzle out as much “why” as you can when often there’s [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, grief, History, moving forward, writing through adversity
Posted in History
Posted in History
The Battle Of Blair Mountain: Still Fighting
When it comes to battlefields, we all know Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Gettysburg, Ft. Sumter, and more recently, Pearl Harbor and Ground Zero. But there’s a much lesser-known historical battle site that’s right in our backyard, and its tale [...]
Tagged with: 1920's, Almost Heaven, Athena Grayson, Blair Mountain, coal miners, environmentalism, History, organizing, southern west virginia, UMWA, unions
Posted in History
Posted in History
Taking A Trip
It’s the last full week of summer vacation here, and like everybody, we are cramming a much summer fun in as we can. So we’re on a trip.
There’s another trip I’m excited about, and it’s one I took a few [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, books are my special friends, History, Jennette Marie Powell, Scribbling, Time's Enemy, time-travel, time-travel romance
Posted in History
Posted in History
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