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A Glance Back – Back
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Um, no, the title is NOT a typo, and the picture? Let me explain. In December 2007 my husband Neil, a high school principal, had begun his first day of Christmas break. He was silently celebrating that he had only one chore left to accomplish, and then the next two weeks were his to do…
SCUTTLEBUTT
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Wild Word Friday! If you hear someone say, “What’s the SCUTTLEBUTT?” you know that s/he is referring to the latest gossip. But where on earth did we get a word like SCUTTLEBUTT? Well, at first let’s do a little historical research. SCUTTLE comes to the English language from the Old French word escoutille, which means…
GOBBLE!
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Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
MAY 2023 FREE BOOK WINNER!
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And we have a winner…. Congratulations to Tina Rose who won a beautiful copy of So God Made A Mother!! Tina, message me your address and I will send the book your way, ASAP! Happy reading! Sue
December 2016 Free Book!
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What a privilege is mine this month to present as our December 2016 Free Book, the newly released THE BARON AND THE BEAR, Rupp’s Runts, Haskins’s Miners, and the Season That Changed Basketball Forever by our friend David Kingsley Snell. THE BARON AND THE BEAR, published by the prestigious University of Nebraska Press, is an incredible true story…
Isn’t it amazing how the same view can have so many different ‘looks’ – and all of them so beautiful. Great job with the photography, Neil, …….again!!!!