by Sara C. Snider | Apr 12, 2018 | Fairytales and Folklore, Magic in the Mundane
Since the last post was about cats, of course we had to move on to dogs next. Otherwise, the house pet cat/dog continuum would implode and existence as we know it would be fuzzed beyond recognition. Dogs and man go way back. The earliest domestication of dogs is dated...
by Sara C. Snider | Mar 15, 2018 | Magic & Stuff, Magic in the Mundane
I’ve always considered myself a cat person. When I imagine myself in my elder years, I see myself as the crazy lady that pushes a cat around in a pram. Assuming the cat would stay in the pram of course, which it probably wouldn’t. But hey, realism isn’t a requirement...
by Sara C. Snider | Feb 23, 2018 | Fairytales and Folklore, Magic in the Mundane
I love bells. As a teenager, I used to wear a string of bells hanging from my waist. I wore them mostly because I liked their harmonious tinkling. But I think I also wore them because it made me feel like I had a foot in another time. A time where, perhaps, it wasn’t...
by Sara C. Snider | Feb 8, 2018 | Fairytales and Folklore, Magic in the Mundane
As far as basics in life goes, the alphabet ranks pretty high. We start learning it usually before we reach school, sometimes even before our memories have fully formed. It is the foundation of literacy which, in our Age of Information, is pretty important. Yet in...
by Sara C. Snider | Jan 26, 2018 | Magic & Stuff
Last year was kind of a weird year for me. The many vet visits and, at times, uncertainty of whether or not Sally would survive the year, threw me into a funk, from which I still haven’t fully recovered. Writing’s been hard, and blogging harder. The good news is I...
by Sara C. Snider | Dec 23, 2017 | Magic & Stuff
Wow, apparently it’s been two months since I last updated the blog. That can’t be right, can it? Sometimes it feels like I’m living in an alternate universe where a few weeks for me equals two months for everyone else. Needless to say, things got crazy. We had company...
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