Saqqara Aleister
Saqqara has been writing since the sixth grade. She was editor of her high school newspaper, laying up and writing the final copy. She moved on to write Sports pieces and interviews with sports celebrities for a small local newspaper as well as gardening and healthy living tips for a local gardening magazine.
In college Saqqara began working for a media/PR company that provided celebrity interviews to overseas magazines. Interviewing celebrities such as, David Copperfield, George Clooney and Tom Cruise, as well as writing media kits and publicity pieces for up and coming bands, like Poison, White Snake, and Guns and Roses. She has written scripts for shows such as X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Red Shoe Diaries.
Saqqara writes on a wide, varied and broad spectrum of topics ranging from her celebrity interviews, the environment, the paranormal, archeology and anthropology to gardening and vegetarian cooking,and her novels.
Recently, Saqqara has published her first novel, "Fatal Assumptions". She is currently working on her second, a Sci-Fi novel, "When Lucy Fell" and several articles related to the UFO phenomenon.
Saqqara lives in Southern California with her black lab, working on her articles, novels, screenplays, gardening, learning mandarin Chinese and just a few of the organizations Saqqara belongs to are, Reporters Without Borders, WGAw, SAG, AFI, AFTRA, IFP, WIC: Women's Independent Cinema, GHF{Global Heritage Fund}, Environmental Media Association.
In college Saqqara began working for a media/PR company that provided celebrity interviews to overseas magazines. Interviewing celebrities such as, David Copperfield, George Clooney and Tom Cruise, as well as writing media kits and publicity pieces for up and coming bands, like Poison, White Snake, and Guns and Roses. She has written scripts for shows such as X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Red Shoe Diaries.
Saqqara writes on a wide, varied and broad spectrum of topics ranging from her celebrity interviews, the environment, the paranormal, archeology and anthropology to gardening and vegetarian cooking,and her novels.
Recently, Saqqara has published her first novel, "Fatal Assumptions". She is currently working on her second, a Sci-Fi novel, "When Lucy Fell" and several articles related to the UFO phenomenon.
Saqqara lives in Southern California with her black lab, working on her articles, novels, screenplays, gardening, learning mandarin Chinese and just a few of the organizations Saqqara belongs to are, Reporters Without Borders, WGAw, SAG, AFI, AFTRA, IFP, WIC: Women's Independent Cinema, GHF{Global Heritage Fund}, Environmental Media Association.
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Articles by Saqqara Aleister
August 29, 2008
Obama or McCain
Tough choice, or maybe not so tough. Over the last few months, I had decided I was voting for Hillary. You know, the whole "being a woman in America and having the first woman president" would have been cool. Then Hillary pulled out and I did feel bit of a kick for few days, b...
August 23, 2008
Powered paragliding looks like an extreme sport. It can be dangerous, but it's not all that extreme when you compare it to other forms of personal aviation and ultralight flight.
August 05, 2008
Dr. Salima Ikram is a leading expert on animal mummies and as founder and co-director of the animal Mummy project at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo she combines an understanding of the past with a passion for preserving the future and has brought the little known world of animal mummies to light.
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July 30, 2008
Josh Bernstein goes Into the Unknown in his new show, Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein on Discovery Channel.
June 19, 2008
Many people ask me where I get my glow, and I have to laugh because people have asked me that since I was a kid. I grew up a vegetarian--not because my parents were--no way, my dad was the meat and potatoes kind of guy until he had a heart attack. Just like the old saying goes, "Ex-smokers are the...
June 14, 2008
To the Eskimos the stars are not just put in the sky to give light or guide the wandering traveler. They are living things, sent by some twist of fate to roam the heavens forever, never swerving from their paths. One of these creatures who left the earth and went to live in the sky was Nanuk the bea...
May 09, 2008
Imagine, you live in the United States and have no running water, no sewer system, and your home is melting out from underneath you. Shishmaref is a small village at the top of the world and the tip of the United States. Twenty miles south of the Arctic Circle, the island of 700 residents and hom...
April 28, 2008
This week we are celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo is the Mexican Independence day, celebrating the day Mexico declared itself independent of Spain. So this week try these easy, tasty, quick and low fat versions of some Mexican favorites.
Salsa Fresca {Fresh Salsa}
In a food process...
April 09, 2008
Set to debut June 4th, Discovery Channel finally showed off their "green" channel, Planet Green, with a list of a few of the shows that will be running on the 24/7 Green Living Channel. Glaringly missing from the laundry list of what seems to be shows geared for the 20-something set are shows about ...
March 04, 2008
I just have to ask--do men even get it?
I was, as I sometimes do, hopping around Match.com. A friend had told me Dr. Phil was the new maven of singles and that it's different than it used to be. So off I went to check it out; I´m single, nothing wrong with it. After checking it out, I sa...
January 30, 2008
That, my friend, is the multi-million dollar question. Do people care? Care about the environment, care about the earth falling apart? If one was to believe science fiction writers of old, we are all in for a very rough life if we don´t get our act together and sooner rather than later.
In a w...
January 28, 2008
I recently had the honor of interviewing Josh Bernstein. He is a great interviewee and has such great answers, and he allowed me five questions. OK, not such a big deal; I've had to write interviews with just one question before, so five was great and I think I did a pretty good job of getting TWO...
January 01, 2008
Before you throw out those Christmas cards, here are a few great
recycling ideas to help save space in your garbage can/landfill.
1. Cut your holiday cards in strips to make bookmarks.
2. Cut the scenes from cards to use as gift tags next year.
3. Take cards and glue them to construction ...
December 04, 2007
Many today still call the celebration of the Winter Solstice a pagan ritual full of sex, and while a bit of that is true, they don’t realize that the ritual that is Christmas is in itself drawn largely from the ancient ritual that celebrated the earth’s tilting on its axis, where the daytime hours a...
November 28, 2007
The Past is now the Future: Humans are by nature foragers; we look for food everywhere, from the time of the caveman to now, when we are inundated with every kind of food that can be packaged and placed on a shelf. In the beginning humans chased their food, a savage existence. They never thoug...
November 24, 2007
In the late 1700’s Eliphas Levi, Who is better known today for his involvement in The Golden Dawn along with Aleister Crowley, but that’s not the case. Levi was a Catholic priest, writer, teacher who created the basis for today’s most popular tarot deck. Levi studied many other religions, inclu...
November 20, 2007
Five thousand years ago, the Inca found what today we call a super food, quinoa. Quinoa is a grain that resembles the Middle Eastern pasta couscous. This super grain, pronounced, “keen-wah”, was a food staple among the Inca. Each year the Emperor would plant the first quinoa seeds of the season,...
November 14, 2007
Today many people are looking for natural cures instead of popping a pill. Many find
Flaxseed Oil. Flaxseed Oil is now being considered one of the best Omega 3 Fatty Acids
a person can take. It not only helps lower cholesterol, but science is finding that
it also helps a host of other ailments...
November 13, 2007
Josh Bernstein Kicked off his stint at Discovery Channel;
Josh Bernstein {formally of the hit show Digging for the Truth on the History Channel} kicked off his stint on Discovery Channel tonight with a sidebar to the movie Super Storm called, "Can we Control The Weather"?. {Which aired August ...
November 04, 2007
The sun rises every morning, can you smell the sunshine? With all your hurried e-mails, dropping the kids off at school, microwaving your first cup of coffee for the third time and getting to work three minutes before your boss, take a minute to smell the sunshine, to admire that flower that fought ...
November 04, 2007
At 12:30 am in a hotel room somewhere in the world Colin Cunningham {Major Davis on Stargate SG-1} answers questions, can make a room laugh and doesn't take life as an actor totally recognizable by those fans of Stargate SG-1 so seriously.
Colin started acting in Los Angeles, California but tired...
November 02, 2007
David Winning is a long time dicrector of such cult favorites as, Dinotopia, Sweet valley High, Goosebumps and Stargate Atlantis.
Q: Of acting, directing, producing what is your favorite job?
A: Probably after twenty years, I guess the honest answer would be producing and directing. I've neve...
November 02, 2007
In between his move from Los Angeles to Vancouver and his heavy shooting schedule David Hewlett took some time to answer a few questions about himself and a few fan questions. Following is David's Q&A with Saqqara.
Section One....The Speed Round:
1. Blonde, Brunette or Redhead?
Historically, ...
November 02, 2007
To Know
To Will
To Dare
To keep Silence....
Such are the four words of the Magician.
Webster's defines Illusion as- A misleading perception of reality.
Hence David Copperfield, He is known as the greatest magician/illusionist of our time. He creates his illusions as fast as he...
November 01, 2007
Josh Bernstein has spent the last three years on Digging for the Truth, time and again being referred to as Indiana Jones, but in talking to him and listening to him speak about his first passion, BOSS {The Boulder Outdoor Survival School in Boulder, Utah), it’s evident that nothing could be further...