9.09.13

Bysuehar September 9, 2013July 13, 2013

A Glance Back – Pickles!

Bysuehar October 4, 2013

Sometime in the middle of summer, I promised to put my Bread and Butter Pickle recipe on my blog and Facebook. Here I am about 2 months later finally getting around to it. I’ve used this recipe for years and years. It’s one given to me by one of the elderly ladies who lived in…

Wild Word Friday | Words

YEN

Bysuehar August 10, 2012September 20, 2013

Wild Word Friday! It probably won’t surprise you to know that the English language borrowed the word YEN from the Chinese language, the Cantonese dialect. To the ears of an English-speaker, YEN sounds Chinese. During the mid-1800s when Chinese immigration to the United States peaked, they brought the word in-yan with them. In-yan means…

MySky | North Country | Sue Harrison Blog

4.29.13

Bysuehar April 29, 2013April 29, 2013

MySky | North Country | Sue Harrison Blog

04.07.14

Bysuehar April 7, 2014April 7, 2014

We were excited today to see the thermometer register 32.9 F. at 8 am!! Above freezing, WITH temps forecast in the 40s! Maybe we have hope for spring after all. However, we do have a long way to go…. I took this photo this morning at my father-in-law’s house, which is next door to ours….

Sue Harrison Blog | Wild Word Friday

BLOND/E

Bysuehar August 24, 2012September 20, 2013

Wild Word Friday! When I was a little girl I wanted so much to trade in my brown hair for BLOND. I was quite sure that BLOND hair would work something like a magic wand. Even if nothing else about me changed, being a BLONDE would suddenly morph me into a beauty, and I…

Books | Books I Love

Books I Love/On Becoming A Novelist

Bysuehar November 8, 2011November 7, 2011

ON BECOMING A NOVELIST by John Gardner is an incredible book about the “getting there” process of becoming a novelist. My copy is falling apart at every seam and page, but I still keep it handy for inspiration as I write.