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Brownstones

By Win 
on August 24th, 2021 
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Most of Boston’s brownstones were built in the 1800s as single-family homes. A brownstone is a townhouse but differs due to its exterior stone. The brownstone is a façade. When this stone is first cut it is pink but ages to the rich, chocolate-brown stone that sheaths the homes sitting high above the street. The famous writer, Edith Wharton, lived…

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Knight's Sword

A Knight’s Sword

By Win 
on August 24th, 2021 
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In Medieval Europe, the double-edged sword was common. It was heavy whereas the single-edged sword was much lighter and cheaper. A sword needed to have a sharp point, a good cross guard, and a balanced pommel. A typical sword would be about 35 inches long, including the handle and weight about 2 or more pounds. In book one of the…

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Untitled Painting by Sherile Reilly - clean, contemporary romance author - Bringing Jamie Home Trilogy - Lord of Darkness

Help! I need a title.

By Sherile Reilly 
on November 15th, 2016 
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  Like writing, my painting starts with an idea that I put down on paper. In art, I use Caran D’Ache watercolor pencils and lightly draw the shapes on the canvas. A similar process happens when I start on a story. In Lord of Darkness I wondered about the thinking power of an animal. How much do they understand when…

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The View from my Kitchen Window

By Sherile Reilly 
on February 15th, 2016 
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The full width of our backyard is a long flower that is bordered by a small brick wall It’s about one foot high. When the flowerbed was constructed my husband and I never thought the border would become a pathway for birds and small animals. One time I saw a young crow walking on the wall. I guess he wasn’t…

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Tulip Trouble

By Sherile Reilly 
on February 1st, 2016 
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In the first scene of Jamie’s Choice, I have ten-year-old Jamie squatting beside Rachel’s prize tulips. He’s busy cutting them. Catching Jamie in the act, Rachel raps on the window and then runs to the front door to scold him. She’s too late. He’s already disappeared. When I was writing this story I pictured a cute little boy, with a…

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More About Jamie

By Sherile Reilly 
on January 15th, 2016 
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Note: Feb. 5, 2018 The book cover and the blurb have been updated. Please click here instead. https://sherilereilly.com/book/jamies-choice/ Original post date: Dec. 2014 I never forgot the real Jamie and I wondered what it would be like to have a child live with a woman who’d never been around young children. What if there was a boy who lived across…

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I Don’t Like My Teacher

By Sherile Reilly 
on January 1st, 2016 
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It was the last day of school in June and as a fifth and sixth-grade teacher, I was looking forward to the summer holidays. I’d nearly finished getting my classroom all tidy and I was ready to go home. However, one ten-year-old student sat at his desk and fiddled with a lump of clay. I said to him, “School’s over….

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The Barbarian is Born

By Sherile Reilly 
on December 15th, 2015 
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I wrote Greg and the Barbarian when I was teaching fifth and sixth grade students. I’d always enjoyed reading aloud and doing novel studies with my students. I asked them what they would like to read and they told me about a kid everyone called the Barbarian. They wanted a story about him. Apparently nobody liked the boy. The Barbarian…

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