As long-time readers of this blog may recall, Monarch butterflies and their migration have always fascinated me. I even worked them into my YA fantasy series Misaligned, which I featured in an earlier blog post. Despite all of their wonderful attributes Monarchs cannot survive cold winters. Their solution is to… Read more“Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies”
Category: Maps
Map Monday, Explores Mongo home of Ming the Merciless
For those of you not familiar with Mongo or it’s ruthless ruler Ming the Merciless, let me fill you in. Mongo is not a forsaken ex-European colony clinging to its past and Ming shares no lineage with the former ruling dynasty of China. In fact, strictly speaking neither Ming nor… Read more“Map Monday, Explores Mongo home of Ming the Merciless”
Map Monday, What are the Seven Seas?
What are the Seven Seas? Sounds like a rather simple question to answer, but like most things in life it’s not. The phrase, “sail the seven seas” is an expression referring to traveling the oceans of the world. For some reason the number seven has a more than 4,000 year… Read more“Map Monday, What are the Seven Seas?”