![]() ![]() Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. ![]() Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. ![]() Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells-told by the bombshell herself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is, honestly, overwhelmed. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humorįinalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awardsįrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, many Canadians take the fact that they are a tolerant, individualistic, and multicultural nation quite proudly. Hardly anyone will deny that modern Canada is a largely secular nation. Mark Noll has written an article in the periodical: Church History, asking the question: “What Happened to Christian Canada?” This is an intriguing question because it implies that Canada at one time was a Christian nation. ![]() “What Happened to Christian Canada?”Ĭhurch History 75, no. He wrote an article back in June 2006 entitled “ What Happened to Christian Canada?” In this blog post, I try to summarize some of his main arguments, but I highly suggest you give his entire article a read. He has written an excellent book entitled A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Mark Noll is a church historian with a special emphasis on North American Christianity. So whatever happened to Christian Canada? To list just a few obvious places: the national anthem, Canada’s motto from Psalm 72:8 (a mari usque ad mare), and the motto of many of our universities (a topic which we plan to discuss in the near future). ![]() ![]() Indeed, Canada was a Christian nation throughout much of its history. It unmistakably implies that Canada was at one time a Christian nation. I kind of hope that title catches you by surprise – I certainly had to take a second look at it. ![]() ![]() He traveled and lived in Mexico, Hawaii, the South Seas, most of the South American countries, the Caribbean Islands, and Europe. He used his first advance to go traveling and after that hardly stopped longer than it took him to write another book. It was published by Random House when he was 26. Walter Farley began to write his first book, THE BLACK STALLION, while he was a student at Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School and Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, andįinished it while he was an undergraduate at Columbia University. Consequently, I received a good background in different kinds of horse training and the people associated with each." ![]() He switched from runners to jumpers to show horses to trotters and pacers, then back to runners again. ![]() Farley recalled, "and in a way I profited by it. "He wasn't the most successful trainer of race horses," Mr. But unlike most city children, he had little trouble gaining firsthand experience with horses-his uncle was a professional horseman, and Walter spent much of his time at the stables with him. ![]() Walter Farley's love for horses began when he was a small boy living in Syracuse, New York, and continued as he grew up in New York City, where his family moved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, you have a cold now its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.įirst you need to understand where your thoughts come from, how they arise in the first place. It wants to be free of change, free from pain, free from obligations of life and death. I’ve always believed that we have to find our own paths in life. ![]() To see where something leads, it’s best to wait until you reach the end. You had better reconsider your “importances” if you are to have even a chance of becoming a warrior. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive. Life requires more than knowledge it requires intense feeling and constant energy. No amount of knowledge will nourish or sustain your spirit it can never bring you ultimate happiness or peace. Knowledge alone does not suffice it has no heart. Use whatever knowledge you have but see its limitations. Realization is three-dimensional – a simultaneous comprehension of head, heart, and instinct. Understanding is the one-dimensional comprehension of the intellect. The world’s a puzzle, no need to make sense out it. Excerpts from Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, readers get a good sense of the opposition facing these intellectuals from both Europe and the U.S. so many, in fact, keeping some of the names straight can become a challenge. Rather the book spans the interest in psychical research of many scientists and scholars - William Crookes, Edmund Gurney, Oliver Lodge, Nora and Henry Sidgwick, et al. ![]() However, this isn’t exactly a biography of James, either. William James, brother of the fiction (and ghost story) writer Henry James, was among those scientists, and he serves as the hub of Blum’s book. Instead, the book focuses on scientists from the late 1800s and early 1900s who investigated spiritualist mediums, clairvoyants, and the like. Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin Press, 2006), by Pulizer-Prize winning author Deborah Blum, might disappoint readers looking for true stories of actual ghost hunts in haunted houses and the like. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Lola, the home is the soul of the family, but Júlio is intent on getting rich. ![]() Told from the perspective of matriarch Lola (played by Glória Pires), the story follows her and her husband Júlio, who love each other but come into conflict because they hold different ambitions. ![]() Previously adapted for television four times, the story received a fresh retelling in 2019 under the stewardship of head writer Ângela Chaves. Maria José Dupré’s Brazilian novel Éramos Seis, first published in 1943, portrays the saga of a struggling family in the early 20th century. Éramos Seis (Once We Were Six) writer Ângela Chaves reveals how she brought a modern sensibility to a classic Brazilian novel and explains how music plays an important part in her storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was impressed with the level of real-life detail Katz included. At times this led to jarring transitions but at other times it generated great pathos. ![]() The story focused on Jerry’s “relationship” with his creation, Superman, as well as his struggles on four levels: dealing with the loss of his father who died during a robbery, dealing with selling all rights to Superman for $130, dealing with abandoning his firstborn child Michael after divorcing his first wife, and grappling (as everyone of the period did) with the unthinkable atrocities of the Holocaust.Īny one of those issues would be provocative and complex, but the playwright, David Bar Katz, wove all four into the story. Apparently I'm the only Jerry Siegel historian in the congregation. On 6/13/12, my generous synagogue, Washington Hebrew Congregation, invited me to attend the play The History of Invulnerability in Washington DC. But then again, if you’d told me there’d be a picture book biography of him (and Joe Shuster), I wouldn’t have believed that either. If ten years ago you’d have told me that there would one day be a stage play about Jerry Siegel, I wouldn’t have believed you. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other, you had Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing X-Men, perhaps the most high-profile foray of the television god (who is responsible for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly among others) into the comic book medium. On one hand you had Grant Morrison’s New X-Men, a mindbending and borderline revolutionary look at the franchise, its meaning and its future. However, the really fascinating stuff was happening in individual titles and individual runs. ![]() In comics, the series was launched from one gigantic crossover event to the next – House of M and Decimation come to mind, with Second Comingkicking off at the moment hot on the heels of Utopia. There was obviously the still-ongoing film series which helped launch Hollywood’s current fascination with spandex-clad superheroes, not to mention the franchise’s key role in launching Marvel’s “Ultimate” line (essentially a continuity reboot of the Marvel universe). ![]() The last decade was an interesting one for the X-Men, long a staple of Marvel’s publishing output. ![]() |