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I love to cook. I didn’t always love to cook, mostly because I burned or ruined everything I tried to make, but my mother-in-law was a patient and gentle instructor, and eventually I learned. I still can ruin a dinner, but it doesn’t happen as often as it used to. This Thanksgiving I will cook…
CRAB
Wild Word Friday! All the meanings of the word CRAB – a shellfish with pincers, a louse, an unpleasant and sour person – all come to us along various routes from the same Indo-European wordbase gerbh-, which means to scratch. At first that may seem like a strange meaning to have spawned all those various…
Feb. ’13 FREE BOOK!
I’m delighted to “introduce” a new author to my blog readers. Michael K. Reynolds is one of my agency mates and has been the writer and producer of Emmy- and Telly-Award winning film campaigns. (He owns his own marketing agency – Global Studio). Our February FREE BOOK is Michael’s first novel in a historical series…
ALEUT
Wild Word Friday! ALEUT (pronounced al-yoot) is a word of undetermined origin that was used by Russian explorers to designate the people who lived on the islands and the peninsula that stretch from southwestern Alaska to divide the North Pacific from the Bering Sea. Some linguists believe that the word ALEUT was derived from the…
Eastern European Research Trip – Horses!
I have loved horses since I was very young, and one of the “characters” in my novel-in-progress, BONE FIRE, is a horse. Horses from 5000 B.C. (the timeline of the novel) were quite different from horses today. They were smaller, with large heads, and the insides of their legs were striped, like zebra legs. One…