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Small Joys – Whimsy
I spend a great deal of time being a serious person. When I do research, when I write, when I speak, I’m fairly serious. Maybe that’s why I love to put a bit of whimsy into my life in various ways, especially in my garden. Our friend Paul made this whimsical woodpecker for us. Isn’t…
POLL
Wild Word Friday! Those of us living in the USA are enduring a pre-election season of skirmishes, interviews and civilized (and some uncivilized) vitriol. So I suppose that when you see the word POLL you immediately think of all the commotion and aggravations that seem to be a part of an election year, but let’s…
July ’12 Free Book Winner!
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….
April 2024 FREE BOOKS!
This month some lucky reader will win two books, both by award winning Michigan author, Terri Martin! The first book is THE HOME WIND, an historical novel for middle readers (ages 9 and up), which is set in an 1870s logging camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. From the back cover: “While his mother works as…
FIRE
Wild Word Friday! Harrison Summer Memories… I cannot site any linguistic source to back my claim, but I’m sure that one of the first words in any human language was FIRE. I can, however, cite a very ancient word that has come down to English through thousands of years nearly unchanged from the Indo-European language…