5.06.13
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CRAB
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Wild Word Friday! All the meanings of the word CRAB – a shellfish with pincers, a louse, an unpleasant and sour person – all come to us along various routes from the same Indo-European wordbase gerbh-, which means to scratch. At first that may seem like a strange meaning to have spawned all those various…
FUR
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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…
Your Pet/ Britta!
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What could be better in the middle of January than a sweet summer photo like this! Our thanks to Kim Stallman who gave us permission to use her photo of her grandson Luke and her “grand dog” (Sorry Kim!) Britta as they enjoy a cool slurp out of the garden hose. Q4U: I have to…
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…
A Glance Back — Cedar Cove
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At least once a day, my father goes through these doors with a smile on his face and an ache in his heart. He goes there because the love of his life is spending her last days being loved and cared for by the kind and competent staff at Cedar Cove Assisted Living. My mother…
A Glance Back: Odd Celebrations
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This week gave Neil and I two unusual reasons for celebration. 1. I finally finished the rough draft of my novel WARP. It needs a lot of rewriting, but the rough draft is the tough draft, and I’m always delighted when I finish it. 2. My husband and his brother Denny finished working on their…