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Feb. ’13 Free Book Winner!
Congratulations to Nancy Stec, our winner of Michael K. Reynolds’ novel FLIGHT OF THE EARLS. Happy Reading, Nancy!
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Well, here we are in January. I love December and November, those holiday months, but life seems to take a big long breath in January, and I need that after many busy and joyous holiday weeks. January is a great time to try a new book, and with that in mind, this month we are…
GGOL, GGAAK
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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…
HOST
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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…
CHEMISE
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Wild Word Friday! Once upon a time a long, long time ago, (when I was in the fourth grade), my mother styled my hair into CHEMISE bangs and I wore a baby blue CHEMISE dress. The dropped-waist-box-pleats look was really in, and I was a fourth-grade fashion maven. At least I thought I was. For those…
COMPANION
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Wild Word Friday! Our word today is COMPANION. This past week, Linda, my Bible Study leader (who once lived in Italy), happened to mention that the word COMPANION (which we were discussing) was very similar to the Italian words “with bread.” I came home and looked up COMPANION in one of my resource books. Sure enough. …
GOBLIN!
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Wild Word Friday! Do you remember when you were a kid and there was something absolutely delicious about being pretend-scared? Not truly afraid, just pretend-scared. When children go out to trick-or-treat, they dress up like monsters and GOBLINs and black cats and ghosts and pretend to be scary, and, when they come to our doors…