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Posted in A Writer's Life, Holidays and Observances, Writing for children on Oct 13th, 2009
I threw my back out and couldn’t sit at the computer long enough to write a post, but I’m back now (and so’s my back).
Today is National Face Your Fears Day. I really like this one. It’s the opposite of the old maxim, “Don’t look back, something may be gaining on you.” I prefer to [...]
Posted in Holidays and Observances on Oct 8th, 2009
Today is Alvin C. York Day. Ever heard of him? Probably not if you don’t live in Tennessee. He made quite a splash, back in his day. He was the “most well known soldier of World War I” and a movie was made about him in 1942, Sargeant York, for which Gary Cooper won the [...]
Posted in Holidays and Observances on Oct 4th, 2009
Today is the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron Saint, according to American Catholic.org of animals, ecology, Italy and merchants. The last seems very odd to me since Saint Francis renounced all material wealth, even going so far as to take off his clothes and walk naked through Assisi to show his [...]
Posted in A Writer's Life, Holidays and Observances, Writing for children on Oct 1st, 2009
I ran across a great website, Brownielocks, that lists holidays and observances for every day of the year. Today is International Older Persons Day. The World Health Organization classifies older persons as over sixty. I haven’t quite achieved older person status, but I’m getting closer by the minute.
With the demise of extended families, elders were [...]
Posted in Holidays and Observances on May 24th, 2008
I’m finally ready to blog again after a couple of frantic weeks of packing and moving. It seems appropriate that I’m getting back into gear on World Turtle Day. Not only does this nicely tie into my publishing company, Green Turtle Press, and my middle-grade fantasy novel, Turtle Island, (the title of which I took from one of [...]
Grian McFadden writes award winning fiction and non-fiction for and about children, as well as teaching materials for various educational publishers.