History

Great Britain at War – A Review

If you have been reading this blog for some time you know I am a real sucker for history. I really get into it, when I start learning about a time period I find myself sucking up as much knowledge from as many sources as I can.

The Gnome – A Short Story

Gnome with newspaper and tobacco pipe under a toadstool, with a snail above him and a tree frog in the glass. Heinrich Schlitt (1849-1923) [public Domain]

“You people think we just stand in your gardens all day long, but those aren’t gnomes. Those are wee people. They got nothing in common with us.” He said stroking his long bright green beard.”

Defining Moments

Each one of these moments has changed my life. They have defined who I am in ways that even before I started writing this I didn’t realize.

Diapers

What a wonderful invention. I Honestly can’t imaging a world before diapers, but it mus have been a lot dirtier and smellier. The more I look into history the more I realized that until the last century, much of the world was probably a much smellier place. We use cloth diapers for a lot ofContinue reading “Diapers”

A writing question – do you need a timeline?

Question for all you writers and readers out there: I have a number of short stories that fit into the same universe, but… A) The universe is very large and spread out (huge time line.) B) The stories can really kind of stand on their own without the rest of the universe though there areContinue reading “A writing question – do you need a timeline?”

I know in my warnings on the right over here, —> I say that I am a space science geek, but I left out that I am also a history geek. I really love history, especially The period starting with the rise of the Greeks to about the beginning and into the the “Dark ages”Continue reading “History”