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TERMAGANT
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Wild Word Friday! TERMAGANT is a new word to me. I was perusing the dictionary trying to find a reasonable spelling for a word I was using in my current work-in-progress. I’m a terrible speller, and sometimes even Spell Check can’t decipher what I’m trying to write. Then it’s back to the old days and…
Jan. ’14 2nd Give-Away Book!
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Celebrate with me the first novel written by my friend Wendy Paine Miller, THE DISAPPEARING KEY! (Photo by Brooke Miller. Used with Permission) Our give-away copy is a new trade paperback. Here’s a blurb from the Amazon page: “The night of their daughter’s birth, Gabrielle and her husband Roy fused their genetic and engineering geniuses…
MEASLES
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Wild Word Friday! When I was almost eight years old, my family and I were visiting my maternal grandfather. My brother Bob and I called him Granddaddy. He was a wonderful grandfather, a widower, who doted on us grandchildren. While we were at his house, I started feeling rotten, really, really rotten. By the…
Day Break
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We have friends coming north to visit for the weekend. The guys are going to participate in the Walleye Jamboree. So at “Day Break” they’ll be out on the ice, fishing, but we girls will take a “Day Break” a little later on, to shop and go out for lunch. Then we’ll come home, build a fire in the fireplace, talk,…
ALEUT
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Wild Word Friday! ALEUT (pronounced al-yoot) is a word of undetermined origin that was used by Russian explorers to designate the people who lived on the islands and the peninsula that stretch from southwestern Alaska to divide the North Pacific from the Bering Sea. Some linguists believe that the word ALEUT was derived from the…
SMALL JOYS–Seeing Past Ugly
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My husband and I were walking in a nearby city when I happened to look down and see this beautiful leaf with an ugly cigarette butt on top of it. My first reaction was to feel sadness that something beautiful had been defaced. I snapped a picture, and on occasion I look at that photo…