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ALASKA
Wild Word Friday! Linguists agree that the name ALASKA comes to us from a Native word. There’s some disagreement about which word and even which language. Generally, the consensus is that ALASKA means The Great Land, derived from the Aleut word alyeska, which also means “that which the sea breaks against.” I’m not here to…
A Glance Back – Word Banishment!
Sue Harrison, 2012, Lake Superior State University Evening News Photograph Way back in the mid-1980s, I was a young mother who had just completed her first novel – Mother Earth Father Sky. I was receiving enough rejection letters from publishers and agents to wallpaper our living room. To shore up my sagging self-esteem, I decided…
Small Joys–Gratitude
Actually gratitude is a rather big joy. This is a photo of some of the thank you notes my husband and I have received in the past few months. Every one touched our hearts, and I save them to read over again, which renews the joy! Thank you for your gratitude! Sue
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…
May 2019 FREE BOOK!
I hope the winner of this book loves it as much as I did! What a great read. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens is amazing! From the flap copy: “For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when…
BISCUIT
Wild Word Friday! My Great Grandma Clare made the best BISCUITs I’ve ever tasted. They were the melt-in-your-mouth kind of BISCUITs, and, because I never did get her recipe, I have spent my adult life trying to duplicate her masterpiece, without success. So, as a tribute to my Great Grandma Clare, I decided take a…