Category Archives: books
The Joker’s Wild
Here’s another one from our friend, Jane Clifford. We’ve been calling her Welsh, but she informs us she’s Irish, but has lived in Wales for 30 years.***Last summer my friend was collecting joker cards from playing card packs, so in … Continue reading
The Girl from Petrovka
This is one that we’ve known about since before starting the blog, but somehow we forgot to post it. It’s a good one…and even comes with a celebrity.***When Anthony Hopkins was researching his part for the film of George Feifer’s … Continue reading
The Space Between
I was editing a chapter in our book recently working with a synchronicity called Blue Dog that Tony Vigorito had offered when I came to this phrase within it: Good atmosphere, good friends, good conversation, good wine, good books, and … Continue reading
Book sale synchronicity
Here’s an interesting and somewhat humorous synchronicity related to the sale of our book proposal on synchronicity. Last week, an editor who heard that we had an offer decided to immediately pitch the book to the sales staff. She was … Continue reading
Vox Piscis
We’re traveling this week so we’ve availed Robert Ripley’s Giant Book of Believe it or Not a couple of times. Here’s another one.*** In 1626, a fishmonger in Cambridge, England pulled out a book that was bound in sailcloth from … Continue reading
The Friendship Book
This cover for the book is from 2005. I couldn’t find any from the 1960s. – Trish***We initially ran across Keith Fraser’s story while trolling the strange coincidence archive – – a real treasure trove of synchronicities. We liked his … Continue reading
Indiana Jones and the Last Synchronicity
Some of you might know that back in the early ’90s I wrote seven Indiana Jones novels, starting with The Last Crusade, then backtracking to the 1920s when Indy was just starting his career as an archaeologist. A few years … Continue reading
Petrarch’s view
Here’s a synchronicity that was a key factor in the life of an important figure who played a starring role in history at the outset of the Renaissance. Petrarch 1304-1374, an Italian scholar and poet, is known as the father … Continue reading
Synchronicity in Paris
Here’s another one from Mysteries of the Unknown. It involves a lost object, a writer, and Paris. A winning combination! Novelist Anne Parrish was born in 1888 and died in 1957. She spent her childhood in Colorado Springs and apparently … Continue reading
RUSHDIE
Sharlie West is a writer who contributed an earlier synchronicity about her mother and her current partner, Mom’s Help, a March 6 post. She really gets right to the emotional heart. While reading a book on synchronicity, Synchronicity and You, … Continue reading