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APHAERESIS
Wild Word Friday! When my 92-year-old father-in-law refers to electricity, he says ‘lectricity. The process of dropping an initial syllable when pronouncing a word is so common in human speech that it’s been given a name – APHAERESIS (uh-fur-eh-sus). APHAERESIS – the word – may be totally unfamiliar to us in our everyday speech, but APHAERESIS…
Book Winners for December 2013!!
Congratulations to Jim Birch and Karen Cliett Teesdale who have each won a copy of our 2nd Give-away book for December 2013, SAINTS AMONG US by Ann Marie Rodgers!! Jim says that his favorite Christmas food is iced sugar cookies, although he has to stay away from them! Karen loves snickerdoodle cookies and cornbread stuffing,…
GUETAPENS
Wild Word Friday! I love to hear about the Scripps National Spelling Bee each year – hear about it, not watch it, because my heart aches too much for those who don’t quite make it to that coveted last-person-standing place of honor. The winner this year was Snigdha Nandipati, and the last word she…
May 2020 Free Book!
Many of us are still in a Stay-At-Home situation. It’s a great time for hobbies! Maybe cooking is one of your favorite pass-times, and most of us consider eating to be a favorite pass-time as well. I thought it would be fun to give away a cookbook of traditional USA Southern recipes . My dad’s…
About Resolutions
I have a difficult time selecting just one New Year’s resolution, so I’ve decided to follow the wisdom espoused by several of my writer friends. They’ve each selected one word as a resolution. For some reason that seems to make the whole resolution thing a whole lot easier, and I’ve decided that for 2012 my word is JOY….