Tag Archives: #Classic Cinema with the Sage Sisters

The Marriage of Story and Music

I started writing fantasy stories with colorful illustrations when I was nine. Later, I discovered music and lived the life of composer for many years.  I earned a Doctorate in Music Composition. I am the type of person that needs an active imaginative scenario to get to sleep. I emerged from my schooling phase withContinue reading “The Marriage of Story and Music”

Mental and Emotional Healing in Now, Voyager

Celeste and I continued our Classic Cinema With the Sage Sisters series of movies about mental and emotional health with this very famous movie, Now, Voyager (1942) with Bette Davis, Claude Rains, and Paul Henreid. Here’s the description of the movie. Charlotte Vale, a member of a wealthy Boston family, has a nervous breakdown andContinue reading “Mental and Emotional Healing in Now, Voyager”

Balancing Healthy Skepticism With Musical Dreams

Hi! I’m Gillian. I’ve been an artist my whole life, creating book covers on Wattpad and drawing my own comic books. I got into writing songs and stories in high school and haven’t stopped since. I graduated from the University of Washington and Columbia Publishing Course. I love to think of out-of-the-box ways to promoteContinue reading “Balancing Healthy Skepticism With Musical Dreams”

Start By Writing What You Know But Keep Learning

John DeDakis (pronounced dee-DAY-kiss) is a former editor on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” DeDakis is the author of six novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. In his most recent novel, Enemies Domestic, Lark is a pregnant White House press secretary forced to make an abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic andContinue reading “Start By Writing What You Know But Keep Learning”

Story-Power Celebrates Fifth Year of Sharing Inspiring Stories

Celeste is a certified massage therapist for 30 years mostly working with people who have been injured in some way. But before that she loved stories of all kinds beginning with the family movie nights instituted by the parents she shares with Lucinda. Celeste got hooked on reading in 7th grade.  Lucinda is a retiredContinue reading “Story-Power Celebrates Fifth Year of Sharing Inspiring Stories”