CHANGING A GIGGLE TO A GASP
Miriam and Judah arrive at the home of a visiting sage. A house slave answers their knock. Miriam gives us this account: “Looking so much...
Gladiatorial combat isn’t the only deadly sport.
In The Deadliest Sport, Miriam has reason to be afraid. “I dread attending Binyamin’s bout but not because I’m afraid he’ll lose. He told...
The Tablinium
In a Roman-style home, the tablinium is the room off the atrium where the head of the household conducts business. In Chapter One of The...
HAVE YOU PLAYED ONE OF THE OLDEST GAMES IN THE WORLD?
Knucklebones is an ancient game of toss and catch mentioned by Sophocles and alluded to in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The bones come from...
Let me share the news! Don’t miss DEMON RISING, a fascinating new book by DeAnna Browne, a colleague
History of Magic sparks A New Novel, DEMON RISING by DeAnna Browne Most fiction starts with a single idea. For my novel, DEMON RISING, it...
WERE THE GLADIATORIAL GAMES THE ONLY DEADLY SPORT?
In The Deadliest Sport, Binyamin tells us how he became a gladiator: “I left Alexandria for Capua ten years ago, when I was sixteen, full...
A Father’s Dream
In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam’s father expresses his hope that Binyamin become a scholar, certainly not an outcast to be destroyed for...
Learning to Become a Better Writer
Now and then I contribute to BookDaily.com a blog on writing. This one, published recently, is about watching soap operas to become a...
A FUEL AND A MEDICINE
In The Deadliest Sport, Miriam tells us she cuts up the cakes of animal dung drying in the courtyard to fuel her distillation apparatus....