Wonderful Weekend: More Tree Spirits

This weekend, although we did go to T’s sister’s and his mothers, we weren’t able to go out on the 4-wheeler again into the woods for tree-spirit photos.  However, I did have an opportunity to visit an extremely enchanted tree. This was such an incredible experience – I’ve never seen anything like it, and yes… [...]

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Vampires, Witches, and Werewolves… Oh, My!

Written by:
Wendi Friend
2006
Pale skin; full, blood-red lips; sleek black hair; long, flowing cape over formal-wear; piercing eyes; sharpened teeth – Surely, you’d recognize a vampire if you saw one, right? We know things about them too, don’t we? We know they can’t stand daylight, that they shape-shift into bats, they have psychic powers to stun [...]

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Cashing in on Conspiracy: The Roswell Incident

Written by:
Wendi Friend
America 1949: The first Emmy Awards take place, the country experiences its first television sitcom, George Orwell’s book 1984 takes the literary market by storm, Death of a Salesman hits the big screen, Frankie Laine and Bing Crosby top the music charts, the Civil Rights movement gains momentum, a US Air force crew [...]

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Tree Spirits

One of my favorite things to do is to photograph places where I think faeries may be hanging out, enchanted locations, inspiring landscapes.  Granted, I’m no photographer and I’m using a standard digital camera… but I enjoy gathering albums of faerie enchantments.  A few weeks ago, I had the honor of visiting Georgetown, Kentucky [...]

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Switched Before Birth: Born in the Wrong Body

Written by:
Wendi Friend
Have you ever felt like you were in the wrong place at the wrong time? Everything logical tells you that your being there is right, but internal alarms are sounding that something is out of kilter. Have you ever tried on an outfit and replied, “No, this just isn’t me” and been relieved [...]

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Out of Body, or Out of Mind?

Written by:
Wendi Friend 
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re falling and just as you are about to hit the ground, you wake up in your bed, your body poised for landing? Or perhaps you felt as though you were landing back into your own body? You’re not quite lying down, and not [...]

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Vortex Visions

Written by:
Wendi Friend
How exactly did Dorothy get transported to Oz? Where did that portal come from that delivered Alice to her wonderland? Although their authors of fiction are the obvious first choice of answers, the tales do have something in common. Dorothy’s tornado and Alice’s doorway to wonder are both vortexes. We know the storylines [...]

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Scientific Sources or Paranormal Playthings? Tools and Troubles of the Ghost Hunting Trade

Written by:
Wendi Friend
More and more, people are trying to find ways to provide scientific proof that ghosts, spirits, and elemental beings do exist in our realm. As technology advances, so do the tools used for serious ghost hunters! While some of the technology may provide adrenaline-pumping results, that same technology can be attributed to many [...]

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Me and My Shadow: A Ghostly Encounter

Written by:
Wendi Friend
You’re sitting alone in a dimly lit room, slightly uneasy; and you might have the feeling you’re being watched. Just as your heart-rate quickens and breathing slows, you see a shadow-like figure from the corner of your eye, darting across the room. By the time your head snaps around to take in the [...]

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My, Oh, Maya: A Doomsday Prophecy?

Written by:
Wendi Friend
We’ve been hearing about the end of the world for quite some time, now, right? It might come by meteor; it may be the result of a nuclear war; it could be a slow but definite deterioration of our Ozone layer. Whatever the cause may (or may not) be, people are obsessed with [...]

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