Toys

Over the years we’ve accumulated quite a few fluffy toys; some from my childhood, some from when I was a young adult and liked to collect cute fluffies, some that were bought for my boys and others that came from arcade games and “skill-tester” games machines. The collection had grown ridiculously large and of course no-one has played with any of them for quite some years now, so, after many years of intending to sort through them and discard most of them, we’ve finally done it!

Happy 4th Birthday!!

“The Other Side” is 4 years old today!

Autism, Paganism, Psychic Ability & the Paranormal ~ Updated

Introduction

I wrote the original version of this article (based on some of my previous writings here, “tweaked” and improved a little, with some new content added) for the April 2009 Axis Mundi eNewsletter for “Autism Awareness Month”, after which it also appeared in the May 2009 edition of The Cosmic Cauldron Newsletter (no longer published). It was written at that time with an emphasis on paganism, rather than the paranormal. Naturally I also posted it here on my blog, titled Autism, Psychic Abilities, the Paranormal and Paganism …is there a connection? In June 2010 that blog post was linked to by U.S. online radio station Coast to Coast AM, when they interviewed author William Stillman about

Alien Saviour

This is another of my sketches from many eons ago. This one was done with ballpoint pen and felt pen on pink paper, in three separate panels. I watched and read a lot of sci-fi TV shows and books at the time so my artwork was heavily influenced by them.

New page for my poetry

I decided to create a new section on this blog to display the little bit of poetry I’ve written over the years.

Revelations

Occasionally certain events happen that inspire me to poetic expression.  Suffice to say I needed to write this and found the process to be quite therapeutic.

Sacrificial Ferns

When I’m drawn to write about events that have affected me deeply for one reason or another I always wonder if it’s the appropriate thing to do or not. I guess writing to express one’s feelings on a matter is fine and, as in this case, can be very therapeutic, but whether or not to publish it can be a dilemma. It just seems a shame to put so much effort into the creation of something that will never be shared with anyone else, so here are my musings, inspired by the events of a Samhain retreat I attended…