Gifts by Renee is a small handmade business offering spell candles, bath salt, simmer pots and spiritual tools. Every item I create is rooting and p intention. Everything is crafted with a purpose using high high quality ingredients and a touch of magic.
We are a woman owned, family operated and commercially licensed tea and spice business based out of Manchester, NH. Owners Heidi and John are the ones you will most often see behind the table but each family member has a key contribution to the business. This is truly a family involved business! Our family moto is do what you like...
At Lunar Wings & Mystic Roots, the magic of the macabre intertwines with handcrafted artistry steeped in Victorian shadow and gothic influence. I create enchanting pieces designed to feel like something stumbled upon rather than made. Each creation holds the hush of overgrown cemeteries and the flicker of séance candlelight, places where tiny spirits are nestled among weathered stones and...
How many heartbeats does it take to change the world? Ben Matthews is a mathematical linguist studying spontaneous languages at Columbia University in New York City. Recently home from committing himself to a northern New Hampshire psychiatric center, he spends a relaxing late-May day bonding with his son, Jiminy, at South Street Seaport. They're watching a juggler when the East River to Brooklyn and beyond becomes a white sand desert. A sirocco wind raises waves and whips ice cream wrappers, crumpled napkins, visitor guides, ticket stubs, and other ground level trash intown. Three creatures, their images shimmering in the heat like a mirage, walk across the sand towards The Battery and TriBeCa South. Ben is knocked down and loses track of Jiminy as people race to safety. The desert fades away, the sirocco recedes, and the three creatures walk up to Ben. The one in front says, "We are Healers from the Land of Barass." It points to the one on its right. "He is Cetaf, who cries for h...
Joseph Carrabis told stories to anyone who would listen starting in childhood, wrote his first stories in grade school and started getting paid for his writing in 1978. His work history includes periods as a long-haul trucker, apprentice butcher, apprentice coffee buyer/broker, lumberjack, Cold Regions researcher, mathematician, semanticist, semioticist, physicist, educator, Chief Data Scientist, Chief Research Scientist, Chief Neuroscience Officer, Neuromarketer-in-Residence, and Chief Research Officer.
Prior to becoming a full-time author, Joseph sat on several advisory boards including the Center for Multicultural Science and the Journal of Cultural Marketing Strategy. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research; an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future; Director of Predictive Analytics, Center for Adaptive Solutions; and was an original member of the NYAS/UN's Scientists Without Borders program. He held patents covering mathematics, anthropology, neuroscience, and linguistics based on a technology he created in his basement and from which he created an international company.
He retired from corporate life and now spends his time writing fiction and non-fiction based on his experiences. His work appears regularly in anthologies and his own novels. He's the author of The Augmented Man, Empty Sky, The Inheritors, Tales Told 'Round Celestial Campfires, The Shaman, Search, Tag, and the non-fiction neuroscience-based That Th?nk You Do. His work appears regularly in anthologies and his own novels. You can often find him playing with his dog, Boo, and snuggling with his wife, Susan.
