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Wild Word Friday! If you lived thousands of years ago, your choice of clothing materials would have been pretty much limited to animal skins, especially if you lived where winters loomed fierce and cold. A few groups of people wore birdskins (the Aleuts of ancient Alaska, for example), but before anybody figured out how…
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Wild Word Friday! I thought we might have a short lesson in the Ahtna Athabascan language today. Athna is the language of the Ahtna ethnic group in the southwestern area of mainland Alaska. The original Native speakers lived in central Alaska. Today there are less than 100 Native speakers of the 4 dialects of the…
Winners!/ 2nd Jan. 2014 Book Give-Away
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Congratulations to Ann Marie Smith (from my home town!) and Trish Stronach-Sewell (From Australia!) who have won copies of Wendy Paine Miller’s book THE DISAPPEARING KEY. I’ll be getting those books to both of you ASAP! Blessings! Sue
March 2017 Free Book Winner!!
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Congratulations to Emma Kinnison, winner of our March 2017 Free Book, DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD by Janie Chang! In answer to our question about what country she would like to visit, Emma said her choice would be Great Britain because her ancestors were from England and Ireland! Meanwhile, Emma, while you wait for that bucket list…
A Glance Back – Thanksgiving!
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This Thanksgiving I felt especially blessed, because my mother is still with us, despite the ravages of white matter dementia, which has so afflicted her body and mind. Imagine not being able to use your hands, not being able to speak, not being able to walk, your muscles so stiff that even when you lie…