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In my current novel (Working Title: HORSES OF THE WEST SUN) I write about the ancient peoples from whom so many Europeans descend. In the novel, the two groups I write about are the Volk, who have blue eyes, and the River People, who are brown-eyed. If you have European heritage, likely you have genes…
AWARD
Wild Word Friday! The word AWARD comes to us via a progression that goes backwards in time from the Middle English, awarden, to the Old Norman French, eswarder, to the Old French, esgarder. Esgarder springs from the Latin, ex-garder, which is the base word for many English words that refer to the concept of guarding…
June 2015 Free Book Winner!!
Congratulations to Donna Folcik the winner of our June 2015 Free Book! Donna has won two copies of HERE, Women Writing On Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by Michigan State University Press and edited by Ron Riekki. One copy is for Donna and the other for the library of her choice, which, Donna tells us, is…
May 2018 Free Book!
The world lost an incredible human being this year of 2018. Not only was Billy Graham a “preacher.” He was a man-of-God (sadly, not all preachers are) and in many ways a statesman. To celebrate his life, we’re giving away this book, which is a compilation of articles that spans his ministry from 1955 to…
CRAB
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Small Joys–Something New
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