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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…
Eastern European Research Trip – All Aboard!
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When I began the research for BONE FIRE, it didn’t take me long to decide that I needed to visit the area where most of the novel takes place — the lower Danube River. After a few months of consideration, my husband Neil and I decided that a Viking River Cruise was exactly what we…
The Trip to Eastern Europe – Budapest Tour
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Neil and I learned that the magnificent city of Budapest, often called the “Queen of the Danube,” was at one time two cities, separated by the Danube River. Buda lies on the west hilly side of the river, and Pest is on the east, which is the flatter side of the river. In 1873 the…
Sept. ’13 FREE BOOK #1
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Our first free book this month is from the gifted novelist, Tessa Afshar, who was voted “New Author of the Year” by Family Fiction in 2011. She was born in Iran and lived there the first 14 years of her life. Her conversion to Christianity in her twenties changed her life forever. Our give-away book,…
MySky Mondays
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Next Monday is our first official MySky Monday. We will feature a “No Words Just Serenity” format with a different photograph each Monday that I hope will start your busy work week with a moment of relaxation. Please join us beginning next week for MySky and also for our new Wednesday posts About You and, of…