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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…
March 2015 Free Book!!
Wow, I just finished reading A BROKEN KIND OF BEAUTIFUL, and what a wonderful love story by award-winning author Katie Ganshert! From the back cover: “Fashion is a fickle industry, a frightening fact for twenty-four-year-old model Ivy Clark. Ten years in and she’s learned a sacred truth–appearance is everything. Nobody cares about her broken past…
A Glance Back – What List?
I received a message from a friend this week that surprised me beyond words. My first novel, MOTHER EARTH FATHER SKY, published way back in 1990 and then republished this year as an ebook, had made a national CNN list. Before I tell you what list, I should explain that although I wrote MEFS as…
IGUUGUM TUGIDAA
Wild Word Friday! I thought it might be fun on the first Friday of each month to highlight the Aleut name – and translation – for that month. The Aleut word for June is IGUUGUM TUGIDAA. The second G in that phrase should have a circumflex accent (ˆ) over it, but I couldn’t get my computer…