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A Glance Back – Weekend Get-Away
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In August our son and his wife gave us concert tickets for our birthdays/anniversary gift, and this special treat allowed us to take a 3-day weekend full of fun activities that included: * Watching our oldest granddaughter play in 2 soccer matches, a visit with our son and daughter-in-law and granddaughters, with a lunch together…
Free Book! February 2014
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Michael K. Reynolds has written a great trilogy about Irish immigrants settling in American during the 1800s. I love historical novels, and I’ve really been “caught” by Reynolds’ novels. So you won’t be surprised to learn that our first free book in February 2014 is Michael’s SONGS OF THE SHENANDOAH, an Heirs of Ireland novel….
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…
SWARD
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Wild Word Friday! SWARD is one of those words seldom heard in modern English. As a noun, it’s used to designate a grass-covered area or a field. As a verb it means to cover or become covered with grass. SWARD traces its roots to an Anglo-Saxon word, sweard, which means a skin or hide. In…
May 2016 Free Book!!
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My friend Penina Keen Spinka has recently released her newest Prehistoric — HIDDEN IN MIST, so, of course, I couldn’t resist offering it as our Free Book this month!! Told like a series of stories in a very authentic voice, Spinka carries us into the lives of Hiawatha and the people of the Five Tribes…