Similar to other seasonal posts, I have another blog tag challenge for this winter/Christmas time! I'm super excited to share this, and I hope you enjoy reading it just as much as I enjoyed thinking about the answers and filling them out. You can rea...
Recently, (and I hope to your great delight) I read a few of my very oldest stories to my siblings. I say stories because in an hour or less, there was time for a great many of them. A full story was about 800 words (usually fewer)---half of what I...
Today, I'm excited to welcome a fellow young writer to my blog! When Christopher approached me about writing this article, following the publication of my Beowulf in the Lord of the Rings , I was happy to accept. The article was enlightening, and I...
Today, I get to interview one of my favourite artists, a woman who actually lives on my street! I have known her since I was eight, and she has been a very big inspiration to me! She has encouraged me by buying me supplies and by giving me suggestion...
Today, I'm very happy to be featuring a poem by a fellow blogger (who also happens to be my aunt!) I've been wanting to do a Thanksgiving post, but search my brain as I might, I couldn't think of anything. Then, when Carolyn Joy posted this poem the...
A post by my good friend, Leah Grace. "Art was never really my thing. With the exception of occasional crafts done with my sisters, I didn’t ever get into painting or drawing. The reason for this is simple: I wasn’t good at it, so I didn’t enjo...
Quite recently, I have opened up my old notebooks and begun reliving the stories that haunted my life four years ago. I was an aspiring author (you can read about how I started writing here ), and I was in that infamous stage of "You don't know you d...
There was a time not so long ago when most anyone (especially girls) could do art. The only known portrait of Jane Austen was painted by her own sister, an artist of no great consequence, but an artist nonetheless. Now, because life is so busy, very...
I wish I could say this was from my mountain (I took it not far away though!) and it fits in spirit with the post. :D I love autumns on my mountain. I love the walks, scuffing among the leaves. I love the curled leaves all about the dying g...
I like to draw. I like to play piano. I like to write. And I like to share that with people. A lot of times, this is what I hear: “You’re so good at it! I could never do that.” I’ve heard this far too often, and usually, I just tak...