When Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came… Mary said, “Yes.”
Every year at Christmastime, Christians around the world sing the hauntingly beautiful “Gabriel’s Message,” a 13th-century Basque carol. Based onContinue Reading
Author: Linda Jämsén
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cloister
If all goes according to plan, this spring my husband Otto and I will be strolling through the ancient ruinsContinue Reading
The Gift of a Lifetime for only $43
In a recent podcast interview, I was asked about gifts—not the kind you hastily unwrap under the Christmas tree onContinue Reading
Just Say No to NaNoWriMo?
November is National Novel Writing Month when goal-oriented writers aim to crank out 50,000 words of a brand new manuscript.Continue Reading
ORGANIZE A KICK-ASS BOOK LAUNCH EVENT AT LITTLE COST
When I decided to self-publish my first book, Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding, last fall, IContinue Reading
TOTENTANZ (Dance of the Dead): Remembering 9/11 Twenty Years Later
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 are forever linked in my mind to Franz Liszt’s Totentanz and not onlyContinue Reading
Oslo–Sea and the City
I just returned from five glorious days in Oslo, a city I’d never visited despite living in Finland, one ofContinue Reading
The Psychic Who Changed My Life … Twice (Part II)
In my previous post, Part I, I wrote about how meeting Angelica, a psychic, inspired me to leave Boston andContinue Reading
The Psychic Who Changed My Life … Twice (Part I)
Yesterday I learned that a beloved friend and well-known psychic, Angelica, died in January. The last time I’d heard fromContinue Reading
The Writer’s Journey: From Rejection to Publication
What do Dr. Seuss, Louisa May Alcott, J.K. Rowling, and Margaret Mitchell have in common, other than having written someContinue Reading