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KUKUTUX
Bysuehar
Wild Word Friday! I continue to feature Aleut and Athabascan words on Wild Word Friday to celebrate the May 28 release of my 6 Alaska novels in Ebook format by Open Road Integrated Media. (Find them at www.OpenRoadMedia.com) Male and Female Common Eider Ducks Today’s word KUKUTUX is from the Eastern dialect of the…
LYNCH
Bysuehar
Wild Word Friday! Linguists generally agree that LYNCH is an eponymous word. That means that it originated from the name of a person. The problem seems to be which person. There are several candidates. The first is a James LYNCH Fitzstephen, a mayor of Galway in Ireland. According to some sources, in 1493, poor…
Small Joys–The Survivor!
Bysuehar
These past few months have been a scary time for many of us. I’ve heard newscasters claim that our nation has never known anything like the onslaught of Covid-19. Covid-19 is horrible, but we’ve seen worse. The pandemic commonly called the “Spanish Flu” that took place from 1918 through 1920 infected one-third of the world’s…
October 2014 Free Book!
Bysuehar
Hooray! Time to give away another free book! This month that book is Julie Klassen’s novel, THE TUTOR’S DAUGHTER. If you are a fan of Downton Abbey, you will surely like this book! From the back cover: “Emma Smallwood, determined to help her widowed father, accompanies him to the cliff-top manor of a baronet and…
March 2019 FREE BOOK!
Bysuehar
We’re once again offering WORDS SPOKEN TRUE, one of my favorite novels from one of my favorite authors! Snuggle down during this blustery month of March with WORDS SPOKEN TRUE by Ann H. Gabhart. From the back cover: “Adriane Darcy was practically raised in her father’s newspaper offices. When Blake Garrett, a brash young editor…
A Glance Back – Back
Bysuehar
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…