A hundred years ago, young men would have been returning home after fighting in the first world war. Their wives/girlfriends/mothers took care of things while they were away. The level of emotional and physical resilience these people would have had far surpasses anything of today’s young people. They had no […]
Continue ReadingMargaery Tyrell is one of those characters on GOT that I have never worked out if I like or not. On the whole, I don’t dislike her and believe she is fundamentally a caring person. But what makes her character great is that she is neither purely sweet like Sansa […]
Continue ReadingThe argument most pro-lifers make when it comes to being against abortion is that it is ‘immoral to kill an unborn child.’ There is a difference between killing a child and killing a fetus, but yes, one can argue that a fetus is still alive and so terminating it is […]
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Beautiful. Manipulative. Narcissistic. Paranoid. Maternal. Incestuous. Hateful. Distrusting. Cersei Lannister is one of the most interesting characters (for me) on Game of Thrones. Cersei is a bad, selfish person; no doubt about that. But had George R R. Martin simply made her a cruel, menacing woman that had no humanity, […]
Continue ReadingParents often want the best for their children, but good intentions don’t always lead to a positive outcome. Developmental psychologists have classified parenting styles into four categories: authoritarian (being too strict), permissive/indulgent (being too lenient), authoritative (just right), and neglectful (barely around). I would imagine/hope that the majority of people […]
Continue ReadingA few days ago this author in a writing group I am a part of on Facebook suggested a co-interview where she would send a set of questions to an author to answer and that author would send her another set of questions to answer, or she would answer her […]
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