by gayemack | Oct 10, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
Sadly five weeks ago I bid farewell to my Cathar adventure in France’s Languedoc/L’Occitaine region, returning back to Oxford for another week before flying home to Chicago. My visits to the UK are always crammed full of seeing friends, extended family...
by gayemack | Sep 20, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
Slightly different from what I typically write about, for this post I welcome my good friend, Judy Tsafrir, MD as my guest. Judy is a holistic psychiatrist with a busy practice in Boston. I highly recommend following her blog, as she’s incredibly multifaceted...
by gayemack | Aug 3, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
Admittedly, the time frame here is far earlier than the 12th or 13th centuries I’m used to exploring and writing about, but yesterday’s piece in Huffington was just too good to pass up here for those of you who missed it on Facebook, Twitter,...
by gayemack | Jul 26, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
It was my recent pleasure to interview Chicago’s own best seller author, Jamie Freveletti, one of this year’s ‘featured authors’ for the 2014 Love Is Murder mystery/thriller writer’s conference February 7,8 & 9, 2014 at the...
by gayemack | Jul 18, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
History, especially ancient desert and medieval history, abounds with myths and legends such as Hermes and the Philosopher’s Stone, Glastonbury Abbey, the Holy Grail, Merlin, King Arthur and the treasure of the Templars, just to name a few…and then there is the...
by gayemack | Jun 6, 2013 | Writer's Work and History's Mysteries
The scene is the medieval castle at Montségur in the Languedoc region of southern France. Here in the spring of 1244, one of the most diabolical massacres was carried out against the Gnostic religious sect known as the Cathars. History reports that on March 16th...
