When not writing, Karen spends her time reading, scrapbooking, playing piano, and avoiding cooking. Karen and her husband have two grown children and currently live near Atlanta, Georgia with two spoiled Havanese dogs. Can you easily predict the tides by following the path of the Moon? Not really! First of all, because the Moon is orbiting in the same direction as the Earth rotates, it takes extra time for any point on our planet to rotate and end up exactly below the Moon. The extra time is ~50 mins. This means that the high tide bulges are never directly lined up with the Moon, but a little ahead of it. I finished snapping up the bottom of Annie’s one-piece outfit and lifted her. “Oh, Michael-I thought it would be so much fun with the three of us. My dad used to take me when I was her age, and I remember watching the sky with him. It’s such a magical thing.”

As I placed her on the changing table to dress her, Michael came in to give Annie her good-morning kiss. “Maybe we should get your mother to babysit Annie tonight. I mean, she’ll probably sleep through the whole thing, anyway.”An engaging and guileless little girl, Annie had inherited equal parts from each parent. She had bright green eyes and an odd crescent-shaped birthmark on the inside of her forearm from her mother, and fair hair and perfectly shaped ears from her father. But her little personality was all her own. She was everything I could have wanted in a child. It's first was Entertaining Strangers, written by award-winning playwright David Edgar and directed by Ann Jellicoe, the founder of the community theatre genre.

While the Earth is spinning to give us day and night, it is also moving around the Sun. This movement is called an orbit. The house stood strong and silent, bidding me to come nearer as if it were an old friend needing companionship. The Windows started at me with familiarity, and the feeling of teasing been there before hit me with a fire so strong I had to stop." Spinning the Moon is actually a combination and rerelease of Karen White’s first book, Shadow of the Moon, and Whispers of Goodbye, another one of her early books that had since been discontinued. I admittedly bought this book mostly for the cover and I’d describe them as historical dramas or soap operas! Both books have melodramatic Hallmark/Lifetime movie vibes. (Not in a bad way!) As well as the launch on Saturday, there is a workshop for beginners on Sunday, November 3 at Dorchester Corn Exchange between 2-4pm, and the casting weekend will run from Friday November 29 to Saturday, December 1.DCPA launched Spinning the Moon, Dorchester's record-breaking seventh community play – no other town has achieved this many – in October 2019 with a public play reading, workshops and casting. Spinning the Moon is set in and around Dorchester in the time of social turbulence following the Wars of the Roses. It blends history with fiction and tells a tale of poignancy and drama with power and humour."

We made love slowly, in the comfortable way old lovers do, and then we held each other close, listening to the sounds of morning outside our window. So as the moon orbits the Earth, it rotates to keep the same side facing us," Moriarty said. "One rotation takes the same amount of time as one orbit, in other words, about a month." Put another way, Earth and the moon exert a gravitational pull on each other, and the gravitational force exerted is always strongest where the two bodies are directly facing each other, causing both Earth and the moon to stretch slightly as they're pulled in the direction of the other. As a result, the moon is stretched into an elliptical shape with its longest axis being tugged to always be facing toward us. This is also what causes Earth's tides to go in and out every day. Following this incredible experience, Dorchester Community Plays Association (DCPA) was formed and has staged five further community plays, each based on the history of the town. I sighed, enjoying the caress of goose bumps as they traveled down my spine. “Michael, not here. Someone might see.” I made no move to step away. The sound made me grimace. Reluctantly, I threw off the sheets. “It was nice while it lasted,” I said as I slipped out of bed and into my robe. I leaned down to give Michael a kiss and then hurried to the nursery, where I was being summoned in a tone approaching hysteria.In Scotland we experience winter at the beginning of the year. Six months later the Earth hastravelled halfway around its orbit. The southern hemisphere is now tilted away from the Sun so it is winter.At the same time it is summer in the northern hemisphere because it is now tilted more towards the Sun. I pressed my head into the pillow and tapped him gently on the head with the flat of my palm. “It’s not a shooting star-it’s a comet and an eclipse. It’ll really be spectacular.”

Up here on the International Space Station I don’t get affected by the seasons but on Earth the seasons are always changing: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. The northern hemisphere continues to tilt more and more towards the Sun, until the longest summer days in June. This story doesn’t end in the past. The same process is happening now. The Moon continues to move away from Earth at a rate of about an inch-and-a-half (4 cm) per year, its drift slowing as it goes. The energy propelling it away comes primarily from Earth’s oceans, which both bulge out in response to the Moon’s gravity and exert a gravitational pull of their own on the Moon. Earth’s bulging oceans don’t exactly match up with the position of the Moon, they’re always a little out of sync because it takes time for all that water to shift and pile up. This interaction does two things: it creates friction that slows Earth’s own rotation, and creates forces that change the Moon’s orbital speed, causing it to fall farther away into space. Other, weaker forces ― related to such factors as the Moon’s tilt, its elliptical orbit, Earth’s deep interior, the influence of the Sun, and more ― also affect the Moon’s motion, but these cause only very subtle changes, and sizes and distances are not to scale. Winter is when the northern hemisphere (where we live) is tilted away from the Sun. Sunlight hits the northern hemisphere at a shallow angle. This spreads sunlight over a wide area so it is weaker and less warm. Winter has the coldest weather and the longest nights of the year.

Reading Karen White’s first two novels I was hooked by the time-travel theme of the first novel, In the Shadow of the Moon, and the Gothic overtones of the second novel, Whisper of Goodbye. The settings are the American Civil War and the Reconstruction of Louisiana which, of course, took place after the end of the Civil War, respectively. The author devised some differing aspects of time-travel that I had not seen before such as the ‘Shadow Warriors’. I truly enjoyed the Native American influences found in the first novel through the character of Zeke Proundfoot. As both novels take place in the South, the reader definitely experiences the deprivation of the South by the North. The second novel has a sister who has lost everything and everybody whom she loved going to visit her older sister who had married a Yankee officer and lives on their granmother’s plantation. What Cat finds brings remembrances, some welcomed, but many not, but where is Elizabeth, her older sister?