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SWARD
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Wild Word Friday! SWARD is one of those words seldom heard in modern English. As a noun, it’s used to designate a grass-covered area or a field. As a verb it means to cover or become covered with grass. SWARD traces its roots to an Anglo-Saxon word, sweard, which means a skin or hide. In…
HOST
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Wild Word Friday! It’s unusual to find a word that in its noun form has two very opposite meanings, but HOST is one of those contrary words. In its most ancient form – ghosti, an Indo-European word – it meant stranger or guest. Right away you can see the dichotomy. A guest is someone we…
April 2019 FREE BOOK!
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My monthly reading group chose this book for February 2019, and, to be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to reading it. I was only about a chapter in when I realized A MAN CALLED OVE (by Fredrik Backman) was an absolute delight, and I knew I had to share the joy. From the back cover…
A Glance Back – Word Banishment!
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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…