Congratulations to Sarah McHatton who won Sandie Bricker’s book, LOVE FINDS YOU IN HOLIDAY FLORIDA! Sarah, I’ll be mailing the book to you during this next week. Next week we’ll sponsor another book give-away on the blog. Stay tuned….
At Christmas, my husband usually waits until the last minute to buy gifts. This year, however, he surprised me totally with a beautiful electric piano. Talk about dreams come true! I received my gift early because he didn’t want to pick out the piano by himself, and I was delighted to add my comments and…
Wild Word Friday! ANIIDAM TUGIDAA is the Aleut designation for our month of July. ANIIDAM TUGIDAA means Month When Sea Mammal Pups are Born. When I work within a Native American language, I always love to see how words and names are so connected with nature. That’s not unusual considering that the survival of Native…
I’m so excited to offer my friend Janie Chang’s new novel DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD as our March 2017 FREE BOOK! This is an incredible novel that will transport you to another time and place. From the back cover copy: “In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of…
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…
When I was ten years old, my Grandma Kate began a Christmas tradition that would profoundly impact my life. She gave me Laura Ingalls Wilder’s LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS. Every year after, she gave me one or two books in the series until I had them all. What a treasure! Because of those…
At Christmas, my husband usually waits until the last minute to buy gifts. This year, however, he surprised me totally with a beautiful electric piano. Talk about dreams come true! I received my gift early because he didn’t want to pick out the piano by himself, and I was delighted to add my comments and…
Wild Word Friday! ANIIDAM TUGIDAA is the Aleut designation for our month of July. ANIIDAM TUGIDAA means Month When Sea Mammal Pups are Born. When I work within a Native American language, I always love to see how words and names are so connected with nature. That’s not unusual considering that the survival of Native…
I’m so excited to offer my friend Janie Chang’s new novel DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD as our March 2017 FREE BOOK! This is an incredible novel that will transport you to another time and place. From the back cover copy: “In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of…
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…
When I was ten years old, my Grandma Kate began a Christmas tradition that would profoundly impact my life. She gave me Laura Ingalls Wilder’s LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS. Every year after, she gave me one or two books in the series until I had them all. What a treasure! Because of those…
At Christmas, my husband usually waits until the last minute to buy gifts. This year, however, he surprised me totally with a beautiful electric piano. Talk about dreams come true! I received my gift early because he didn’t want to pick out the piano by himself, and I was delighted to add my comments and…
Wild Word Friday! ANIIDAM TUGIDAA is the Aleut designation for our month of July. ANIIDAM TUGIDAA means Month When Sea Mammal Pups are Born. When I work within a Native American language, I always love to see how words and names are so connected with nature. That’s not unusual considering that the survival of Native…
I’m so excited to offer my friend Janie Chang’s new novel DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD as our March 2017 FREE BOOK! This is an incredible novel that will transport you to another time and place. From the back cover copy: “In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is abandoned in the courtyard of…
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…
When I was ten years old, my Grandma Kate began a Christmas tradition that would profoundly impact my life. She gave me Laura Ingalls Wilder’s LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS. Every year after, she gave me one or two books in the series until I had them all. What a treasure! Because of those…
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