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Tyr ( or Tiw) was the god of single combat, law and justice in Norse mythology. And our Tuesday is named after him.
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Wendy writes career guides as Wendy Smith and fiction as Wendy Mason. Wendy is a life and career coach, as well being a writer and poet. You can find her Amazon page at this link and her biography here....

Our ancestors must have feared the darkness of night terribly. Oh how they would have loved
daylight and those nights when the moon shone bright. Most of all they must have loved the full moon. It is all too easy to see how they came to worship the sun and the moon. But then, of course, they discovered fire. At first it was probably a natural...

I have a new poem on my Dreaming in Purple and Grey poetry site. It is written in remembrance for the 100 years' anniversary of the First World War armistice.  You can find it at this link.
I wanted this poem to sound like a nursery rhyme despite the gruesomeness. For us growing up in the fifties, the First World War was not very far away. My Grandad was a wagonner when the war began. He was called up with his horses. My Mum could remember...

When you think about it, it seems strange that so many people use sound to help them sleep. Surely most people prefer silence. But do they?
During long periods of silence in sensory deprivation experiments, people have imagined some pretty strange sounds. Being robbed of sensory input doesn’t suit the brain - it needs to fill the silence. The brain just craves sensory input. So, to sleep...