…to make any maid, matron, or vixen roll her eyes, grimace, and gag. This one is not for younger audiences or the easily offended. Everyone else, please enjoy! If any of the following bad pick up lines make you squirm, as well as laugh, well, that’s exactly how I felt writing them. Please be grateful…
Tag: comedy
Five eccentric Tudor solutions for a less stressful Christmas
If you love all things Tudor history, then you’re likely no stranger to taking up a torch for things non-history folk don’t understand. Is it worth getting into a heated debate about the identity of a sitter in a nearly 500 year old painting? Can you go from zero to 100 hundred when someone confuses…
10 historical Valentine’s Day facts worth knowing*
I love knowing random facts, so for Valentine’s Day I put together 10 historical facts about the holiday I feel are (odd enough to be) worth knowing*. These are a hodgepodge of historical facts, several coming from Victorian-era articles and so the dates of some of these traditions are unclear. Let’s focus more on what…
15 “Romantic” texts courtesy of Henry VIII (Modernized!)
For a Valentine’s Day post I thought it would be fun to pull quotes from Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn and convert them into modern text messages, so I did! And it was fun. Quote: “The cause of my writing at this time, good sweetheart, is only to understand of your good health…
New article: 10 simple ways to teleport into history
My imagination often takes me on a trip into the past. Sometimes the journey is planned and many times I happen upon a time because it cannot be avoided. Here are 10 ways I teleport back in time*. *Metaphorically. I’m a writer not a magician or scientist. A gravel path. Nothing transports me into the…