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Eastern European Research Trip – Budapest!
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Neil and I arrive in Budapest, Hungary, at about 1 p.m. We take a taxi from the airport to our hotel, the Budapest Marriott, which is located right on the Danube River! The lobby welcomes us with dark elegant paneling, flowers, and chandeliers. The Lobby of the Budapest Marriott We have a great room with…
JUNE 2024 FREE BOOK!
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Our Free Book this month is the national bestselling novel, WE MUST BE BRAVE by Frances Liardet. From the back cover, “December 1940. As German bombs fall on Southampton, England, the city’s residents flee to the surrounding villages. In Upton village, amid the chaos, new married Ellen Parr finds a girl asleep, unclaimed at the…
March ’13 2nd Book Winner!
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Congratulations to Julia Carter, the winner of our second March 2013 Free Book!! I’ll be mailing you your copy of UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS by Jennifer S. Holland this week, Julia! Blessings! Sue
FORK
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Wild Word Friday! I really, really don’t like to have sticky fingers, which is why I’m so grateful that someone invented the FORK. In the history of mankind – and womankind – the FORK is a fairly recent development, although in 1290 Fra Bonvicino da Riva (from Italy) wrote this advice to diners: “Let thy…
CHINCHILLA
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Wild Word Friday! The word CHINCHILLA refers, of course, to a little rodent, about fifteen inches in length when full grown, which in the past was valued for its lovely pale-gray fur. CHINCHILLA also refers to cloth made for overcoats out of wool and cotton. This type of cloth has a tufted and napped surface…