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HOST
Wild Word Friday! It’s unusual to find a word that in its noun form has two very opposite meanings, but HOST is one of those contrary words. In its most ancient form – ghosti, an Indo-European word – it meant stranger or guest. Right away you can see the dichotomy. A guest is someone we…
JULY 2023 FREE BOOK!
We have an amazing book for you this July, a very appropriate work for the month that we in the United States celebrate our Independence Day. Written by Fred Kaplan, a well-known and much celebrated biographer and poet, HIS MASTERLY PEN, A BIOGRAPHY OF JEFFERSON THE WRITER will take its place as one of the…
June 2015 Free Book Winner!!
Congratulations to Donna Folcik the winner of our June 2015 Free Book! Donna has won two copies of HERE, Women Writing On Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press and edited by Ron Riekki. One copy is for Donna and the other for the library of her choice, which, Donna tells us, is…
About Hair Color
About You! I’m a brunette. Well, I was a brunette. Now I’m a brunette thanks to the skills of my colorist. (No, this is not me. I wish it were!) For a while, I actually went gray, and I was fine with that until the first time someone “carded” me as a senior citizen. Who? Me? Wait a…
Your Pet! Daisy!
Owner Becky Danielson describes her dog, Daisy, as her “constant companion.” Daisy was supposed to be a great bird dog but after two weeks of training, the trainer told Becky’s husband, “Sorry, this ain’t a huntin’ dog.” Becky says that when Daisy is in the kitchen garden she chases rabbits, chipmunks, and squirrels out of…