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March 2013 Free Book!
Our March Free Book is a fantastic novel set in the late 1800s: THE DILEMMA OF CHARLOTTE FARROW by Olivia Newport. From the back cover: “While the rest of Chicago focuses on the enormous spectacle of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Charlotte Farrow’s attentions are entirely on one small boy – her boy – whom…
About insects
I’ve never been an insect-lover. Not flies, not cute little lady bugs, not cockroaches (which we don’t have up here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – Hooray!), not fleas or… I could go on almost forever, couldn’t I? I know insects are necessary to our ecology and part of God’s plan, and I can claim…
OID
Wild Word Friday! To be perfectly honest, OID is not a word. It’s actually a syllable, and it comes to us from the Greek suffix -oeides, which is used to indicate a form or a shape. In other words, OID indicates that something is like something else. That’s exactly how we use this suffix…
Puppy Love/ Saluki!
According to many experts, the Saluki is the oldest domesticated dog breed in the world. They were used as coursing hounds to hunt rabbits and small gazelles by the nobility of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia. They are fast, agile, and have excellent eyes. The Saluki isn’t lap dog material, not just because they weigh in…
Small Joys–Earrings!
These earrings have just found a sweet nook in my jewelry box. They’re replicas of the glass floats used years and years ago for fishing nets by Asian and sometimes American fishermen. Nestled against a boomerang given to me by an Australian friend (Thank you, Trish!), and a replica of a scrimshawed walrus tusk, are…