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JUBILEE

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Wild Word Friday!   Our word today – JUBILEE – comes to us from the ancient Hebrew via a long journey through Europe. Every fifty years, according to a law that has been recorded in the Old Testament book of Leviticus (chapter 25, verse 10): “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty…

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SARCASM

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Wild Word Friday! In researching the word SARCASM, I discovered that it definitely deserves the title Wild Word. SARCASM isn’t usually a part of my repertoire, but a couple of years ago a person told me that they were going to do something which I knew would hurt the feelings of an elderly person dear…

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AWARD

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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…

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BISCUIT

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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…

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Free Book July 2017!

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We are delighted to highlight Olivia Newport’s newest Amish book GLADDEN THE HEART as our July 2017 free book!! From the back cover: “1847: The members of the Amish church in the Kishacoquillas Valley of central Pennsylvania don’t know quite what to make of the Methodist tent revival going on down the road. From the…

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  1. Thank you! I’m sure I’ll enjoy it very much! My address is:
    103 Keller Road
    Rossville, GA. 30741

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